Same as it ever was. Death is already *mostly* voluntary. Anyone can commit suicide any time they want. That the overwhelming majority of us *choose* not to is important. The particular alternatives we continually choose to engage define us. Would you rather ingest engineered cells? Or perhaps (as I did) engineered antibodies? I've long thought that the Singularity is metaphysical hooha; and generalized AI will arise through a merging of wet- with hard-ware ... chip in the brain before brain in the laptop, an evolution not a revolution. So, programmatically controllable cells just seems like a natural step along the way ... much like the spittle bug's kidney and the built environments we all find surrounding us.
On 9/21/18 7:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > There’s almost certainly blue-screen-of-death scenarios here – we die of > bugs, or bio-malware. > > > > *From: *Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Nick Thompson > <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > *Date: *Friday, September 21, 2018 at 8:46 AM > *To: *'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize? > > > > And then what will we die of? > > > > Before we make life infinite, we better change the laws to make death > voluntary. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
