RE: NOVELTY. DOES IT REALLY "EXIST"?
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We must know that our life here ends with a death, it is the natural end, and it must be, if everything goes well. For me, living like a machine, like a tool, is not even an option.
Please explain.
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It is an inside joke that I make when I have heard some transhumanists say that their "improvements" to their body will help them to be more productive in cases like work, which turns them, in my opinion, into tools, like "a hammer is more useful than a fist" or something like that.
I say it's not an option because I don't think I would.
Wow.
That sounds like dreaming about having the powers of superman so you can pull some double-shifts at your construction job.
The "promise" of "transhumanism" is to make human communication more seamless and error-free.
The whole idea is to transcend the drudgery and isolation (and inevitable pain) associated with "the human condition".
A kind of. But we will always be human, whether we accept it or not, the aim to make the human less human seems destined to fail when we understand that we are not only human in body but also in mind. We think and feel inexorably like humans. It's like changing the appearance of something even though deep down it remains the same. I don't know if it is possible for humans to be able to change their human nature, leaving aside the question of whether that would be a good or bad thing.
The "human experience" would seem to include quite a broad scope.
What do you mean?
Helen Keller.
Oh yeah, I agree. It is quite a broad scope. Each human experience is different from the others, some more similar, but they all differ, to the point that I wonder what the essence of the human being is, all being a group with many apparent differences, what is it that we all have that makes us human? That is something that needs to be answered when addressing the issue of transhumanism.
Transhumanism could conceivably allow us to "step into" the "mind-space" of others with experiences wholly unfamiliar to us.
I would not deny that. Although I would see it more as an experiment than a way of life.
Well, when your bacteria habitat implodes, it might be your only option.
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