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Russian billionaire’s plan for immortality by 2045 includes turning us into cyborgs
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| 4/1/13
| Nicolette Emmino
Posted on 04/05/2013 9:53:28 AM PDT by null and void
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An Obama and Hillary!™ who never die!...
To: null and void
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posted on
04/05/2013 9:55:53 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: null and void
I think they already did this with Jimma Carter.
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posted on
04/05/2013 9:56:26 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: null and void
Actually this is one of my ideas for interstellar space flight. Advanced robotics with downloaded human intelligence.
If you can achieve that level of technology you should be able to separate the intelligence from the personality. The intelligence can monitor ship systems for thousands of years as the personality can sleep in the robot to be recombined and awakened at the destination. Such a ship could carry frozen embryos of mankind and the human robots can raise and teach the first generations elsewhere.
Just the sort of thing I ponder.
There are also ethical concerns about it that I ponder.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:04:18 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: null and void
Oh, I don't know. There's also Major Motoko Kusanagi to bear in mind:
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:09:20 AM PDT
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AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: null and void
An agent from the government or a company like Apple comes up to you with a friend of yours who has been turned into a cyborg.
He asks you if you want to upgrade your body and become a cyborg too.
You wonder if that really is still your friend in the cyborg body and pepper him with a lot of questions.
His answers seem rather convincing: he remembers certain things that no one else could know, but he also has some memory lapses that seem all too human.
Do you agree to the upgrade? Is that still really your friend?
To: null and void
“City” - clifford d. simack.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:12:39 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: null and void
Nein, danke.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:13:03 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: null and void
Read a little Kurtzweil and you can do it to.
To: null and void
Is a computer a human being? No.
It isn't a tough question.
Can a human being be aided by mechanical parts? Yes.
Will a robot ever fully mimic a human being? Maybe.
But will a robot every BE a human being? No.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Ten years ago, I would have said ‘yes’ without a moment’s hesitation.
Today?
Not so much.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:15:42 AM PDT
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null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
To: null and void
Why would anyone want to live forever?
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:16:39 AM PDT
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stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Would I rather have R. Daneel Olivaw as a friend than nearly every genetic human I’ve ever known?
Yes.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:18:59 AM PDT
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null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
To: stuartcr
For some it is so they never have to be judged by God.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:19:29 AM PDT
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Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: camle
City. Wow, I haven’t read that for a looong time. I loved that book.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:19:48 AM PDT
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MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
But what if it’s a robot with a fully functional and organic human brain?
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04/05/2013 10:20:08 AM PDT
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AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: null and void
Honestly, if the Lord waits another hundred years and seeing the exponential growth in medical breakthroughs, where do you think we will be in a hundred years regarding human mortality and health by then?
My take: Man will acquire the technology to make himself immortal within 40 years or less. The question will be, do we want to be?
We are already seeing a glimpse of the moral cunnundrums this is creating. It will only get many, many times worse.
This is actually one of the reasons I believe the Lord’s return is imminent.
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:21:19 AM PDT
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cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: null and void
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04/05/2013 10:23:05 AM PDT
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P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
My take on the star trek transporter:
It breaks you up into billions of pieces, effectively killing you. It reassembles an exact copy that, if it is alive, has no human soul and no intelligence.
But you are still dead.
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04/05/2013 10:23:37 AM PDT
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cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: MarineBrat
read it in the seventh grade the first time. it kinda sticks. that was circa 1968... around teh time ‘the time tunnel’ was on
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posted on
04/05/2013 10:33:31 AM PDT
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camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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