KDude
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fondness for food from gas stations)...
mmm truckstop burritos. don't even hate.
fondness for food from gas stations)...
mmm truckstop burritos. don't even hate.
Same here. The idea has always intrigued me, and the technology is getting closer and closer to some fairly significant modifications.It really depends on what you mean by transhuman. I don't think grafting some neural/optical modifications to your central nervous system really makes for a transhuman. I'd pretty much get augmented in a heartbeat if it was affordable, safe, and didn't mess up my training in any way.
Now, if you're talking about uploading my personality to some substrate somewhere, then no... I'd never do that. Just couldn't handle it. Never dying, not having a body of my own... it'd be too weird and I'd never want to do that ever.
I wouldn't trust whoever was in charge of maintenance. Software problem? Routed to peon with list of basic questions. Hardware problem? Routed to peon with list of basic questions. Biological problem? Have you dealt with insurance and healthcare lately?
If you were offered a free opportunity to become transhuman, with the freedom to choose and design the “upgrades†you would like. Would you accept the offer and become transhuman, or stay the same?
If yes, what changes would you like to make to yourself?
Yeah. It's more convenient than carrying a smartphone with me, and it serves a similar purpose.
I would not want any transhuman changes that affected my brain. I consider my brain, soul, and DNA to be the seat of my humanity and thus would not want them altered.
I'd first get rid of my entire body and replace it with a robot body. It would be smooth and aerodynamic, exceptionally fast and strong but doesnt need to have a face or anything.
Now, if you're talking about uploading my personality to some substrate somewhere, then no... I'd never do that. Just couldn't handle it. Never dying, not having a body of my own... it'd be too weird and I'd never want to do that ever.
Maybe two giant eyes. I would want to be able to "see" in all wavelengths of light, X-ray to radio, (I'l miss out on the gamma waves, thanks.)
One things for sure, I'm for sure dying. I want to. That whole living forever thing is just not going to happen for me...I'm sorry.
I wouldnt want it, i prefer to be 100% human, even if it had some disadvantages in some situations
And that's exactly why I wouldn't want to do it. I was born a human, I was born in one body, and despite my unique personality, I don't think I would really be "me" without my unique body and its limitations. I am not a hummingbird, I am not a dolphin. I'm a human. It's the way I was born, and it's the way I intend to stay. I enjoy being me. The only reason I might ever upload my personality is if it was in relation to the sort of backup/return systems explored in various military science fiction stories, where Soldier n goes out, is accidentally killed, but uploads his personality back to the server before he passes. Then a clone is thawed from storage, and now Soldier n+1 is back in a body, still the same person.what if you it didn't mean not having a body of your own? considering it would have probably already being neccessery to develop an understanding of the nervious system in order for you to even operate as an uploaded mind in the first place - then there's no reason why they couldn't wire sensors and motors to function on behalf of your nervious system and feel just as real, from heat to touch to sex and if you want even pain. why not rent a body for a vecation in the physical world? or buy one which is customized just for you, perhaps looking and feeling like you did before, so you can go in and out of the system whenever you want? or have multiply bodies to choose from? maybe even synthesizing sperms/eggs from your recorded DNA so you could start a family in the physical world? and who said they have to be human, why not be a humminbird robot for a joy ride? or a dolphin?
But even then, how would I know it was actually me in my body and not a program of me? If I died, does a backup program actually preserve "me"? Or is it a completely different (but very similar) individual?
And that's exactly why I wouldn't want to do it. I was born a human, I was born in one body, and despite my unique personality, I don't think I would really be "me" without my unique body and its limitations. I am not a hummingbird, I am not a dolphin. I'm a human. It's the way I was born, and it's the way I intend to stay. I enjoy being me. The only reason I might ever upload my personality is if it was in relation to the sort of backup/return systems explored in various military science fiction stories, where Soldier n goes out, is accidentally killed, but uploads his personality back to the server before he passes. Then a clone is thawed from storage, and now Soldier n+1 is back in a body, still the same person.
..how is that different from real life?But even then, how would I know it was actually me in my body and not a program of me? If I died, does a backup program actually preserve "me"? Or is it a completely different (but very similar) individual?
what if there was no alteration? nothing about it that actually made you think like a computer? a perfect representation of the neural connections, fluids, hormones, everything, that makes you think what you think and feel what you feel? our molecules get replaced all the time, so we're really always a copy of who we used to be anyway, this would just be one big swap as apposed to a gradual one.
If I could swap my current physical self for an exact biological copy that included the neurons and neuronal connections containing all of my current memories and knowledge I might go for that. However, the change would have to include retaining my soul in the new body.