I believe the fear tends to be more social than practical. This is why we are in a current war of ideologies concerning whatever was done 500 years ago and keeping outdated traditions. I believe it is also a misplaced respect for prior generations. It was oft said in religious circles of the seven last words of the dying church: "We never did it that way before". People don't seem too afraid when the need is greater than the outcome to get a hip replaced. Getting mechanical body parts is simply the next step in evolution.
On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 11:24:59 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Right on Tony - though we have run into some language problems on the > semantic web. I would be cyborg already if I could solder the chips in. > Can't get anyone else to do it. > > We might not need the chips, A 3-d virtual environment with light > removing false memories (already done in mice) and 'burning in' new ones > might be enough. We are down to the synaptic level now. > > But what is the fear we have of such conversion and enhancement? > > We can think of ourselves in a much more self-contained form, not even > reliant on food, able to directly use energy like rock bacteria, without > even photosynthesis. I am scared our technology isn't up to this yet, not > of the possibilities. > > On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 1:58:31 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >> >> A machine-human hybrid would be ideal. >> >> This will happen in the not to distant future. Memory chips will >> supplement our minds and give us instant knowledge as to the best route to >> take in moral or physical tasks. >> >> As an industrial engineer I can see this happening right now. >> >> As the tower of Babel was being built God said: (Paraphrased) "nothing >> will be impossible for mankind now because they have one language and they >> will become like "us". Let us confuse their language." >> >> Now, in computers, we once again have a common language. The only thing >> that hinders man is not ability but imagination. >> >> On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 8:23:35 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: >>> >>> You're wrong on this Allan, in the technical sense. Of course, you are >>> also right that corruption remains a big problem. RP has the right idea on >>> what our intent should be and we can't make Terminators (though we can make >>> bullets that target track). We have machines making sell and buy orders >>> and searching for 'sign' in world text etc. >>> >>> But the question is more about our fears on this matter - do they come >>> from Terminator, some deep place in which we know we are pathetically >>> irrational, selfish and from which we would be shown up by a couple of >>> decent adding machines (this was Frank Soddy's statement in the 1920's on >>> banking). Are we just dead scared of change that involves getting rid of >>> the tyrants? >>> >>>> >>>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
