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lareli:
Joe Rogan Questions Everything episode on "robosapien"... Id start watching around minute 22 when he interviews Ray Kurzweil from google...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZNI8SH8mao
Interesting and fun stuff.. Anyone seen this? Any thoughts? Imortality through merging biological bodies with technology... Simulation theory? If we were in the matrix now would we know it?
lareli:
Ive read that with our smart phones we posses more computing power in the palm of our hand than NASA had during the time thet put a man on the moon.... Ray Kurzweil is claiming that within 20 years, All that computing power will be in a devices the size of a blood cell and we could have them (millions of them) implanted in our brains, bodies, etc... All the information you could gather from google would be instantly available and part of your brain for example... We would be able to hold our breath for hours through the manipulation of red blood cells etc. We could be super heroes.
Of course by "we" that means the super rich ruling class... the rest of us peasants would probably be eliminated. ;)
Dave in Tenn:
We remain the same as long as our hearts remain the same. No technology exists or ever will that will change it...only amplify it.
indianabob:
Just my opinion, but it may be fair to say that there is no manipulation of the human system without cost.
If we manipulate the red blood cells there will be a price to pay UNLESS there is some outside of ourselves addition of matter or energy. An example of real manipulation: In "theory" when God changed the life span of mankind from 1000 years to 180 years (for Abram) to 70 plus years it was for a purpose and for the best result overall according to HIS plan for mankind. (e.g. to leave room for growth in numbers??)
Plus having a knowledge base available does not mean the average person could use it effectively. Put me at the controls of a space vessel and watch the fireworks. There are just too many variables. Smile ;D
--- Quote from: largeli on December 06, 2013, 06:10:14 PM ---Ive read that with our smart phones we posses more computing power in the palm of our hand than NASA had during the time thet put a man on the moon.... Ray Kurzweil is claiming that within 20 years, All that computing power will be in a devices the size of a blood cell and we could have them (millions of them) implanted in our brains, bodies, etc... All the information you could gather from google would be instantly available and part of your brain for example... We would be able to hold our breath for hours through the manipulation of red blood cells etc. We could be super heroes.
Of course by "we" that means the super rich ruling class... the rest of us peasants would probably be eliminated. ;)
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lareli:
--- Quote from: indianabob on December 09, 2013, 07:09:31 PM ---Just my opinion, but it may be fair to say that there is no manipulation of the human system without cost.
If we manipulate the red blood cells there will be a price to pay UNLESS there is some outside of ourselves addition of matter or energy. An example of real manipulation: In "theory" when God changed the life span of mankind from 1000 years to 180 years (for Abram) to 70 plus years it was for a purpose and for the best result overall according to HIS plan for mankind. (e.g. to leave room for growth in numbers??)
Plus having a knowledge base available does not mean the average person could use it effectively. Put me at the controls of a space vessel and watch the fireworks. There are just too many variables. Smile ;D
--- Quote from: largeli on December 06, 2013, 06:10:14 PM ---Ive read that with our smart phones we posses more computing power in the palm of our hand than NASA had during the time thet put a man on the moon.... Ray Kurzweil is claiming that within 20 years, All that computing power will be in a devices the size of a blood cell and we could have them (millions of them) implanted in our brains, bodies, etc... All the information you could gather from google would be instantly available and part of your brain for example... We would be able to hold our breath for hours through the manipulation of red blood cells etc. We could be super heroes.
Of course by "we" that means the super rich ruling class... the rest of us peasants would probably be eliminated. ;)
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I agree.. no such thing as a 'free' lunch.
Consider antibiotics... my kid came home from school the other day and said his teacher told them that antibiotics were responsible for extending the normal life span by about 30 years almost over night. Whether that is a factual statement or embelished a bit I dont know. But look what we have now.. as a result of wide spread antibiotic use and over-use, there are now these antibiotic resistant 'super bugs' that the medical industry has no answer for. Who knows, perhaps antibiotics in the long run will be responsible for the rise in some gnarly super bug that wipes out huge numbers of people..
I can only imagine what the down fall will be of a generation of people taking hold of technology that promises immortality through transhumanism..
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