RE: transhumanism
January 7, 2014 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2014 at 12:11 pm by là bạn điên.)
(January 7, 2014 at 7:53 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(January 7, 2014 at 2:55 am)là bạn điên Wrote: I'm a transhumanist. I have already arranged my suspension yet I am often under attack from religious people and even some atheists for doing so.
What is it about Transhumanism that makes so many people hostile
I'm guessing that you're talking about cryogenic suspension?
If so, total waste of time.
I don't accept you as an authority and I am not advising you to do it. I'm doing it myself because I think it gives a reasonable chance. You may not think so and I don't care. it doesn;t affect you one way or the other.
(January 7, 2014 at 8:03 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: mushroom mushroom mushroom mushroom...SNAKE!
It would seem that you are striving to be "something special" là bạn điên, you will be very disappointed.
But hey, delusions are a dime a dozen, what ever floats your boat.
So no evidence just a rant at someone who dares to think differently
(January 7, 2014 at 11:18 am)whateverist Wrote: No lashing out here but no interest either. Have fun.
An entirely reasonable response
(January 7, 2014 at 11:45 am)Napoléon Wrote: Isn't this already transhumanism? Not too long until we start giving amputees robotic arms and legs, hell we already do for some people. Then I imagine we'll be able to give people eyes who are blind, voice boxes if they're mute, new ears if they're deaf maybe. Technology in some form or another is already helping people like this (hearing aids, laser eye surgery, those voice things that make you sound like a robot).
Yup
Quote:What's the difference between what we're doing now and what we perceive us doing in the future? I really don't buy into this thought that enhancing and even repairing the human experience with technology will remove things like love, sex and individuality. I think it could be quite the opposite.
Entirely agree
Quote:Then again I don't have a definitive definition of transhumanism, just going from what I've previously understood of the term.
That is certainly a major part of it.
(January 7, 2014 at 11:49 am)Esquilax Wrote: That's my point exactly: aside from the fact that the future is scary to some people, and the usefulness of the devices, what's the difference between these two concepts? Yeah, it might all seem like science fiction nonsense and dystopian fiction now, but so did a lot of things, before we went ahead and made them anyway, and they became a part of the fabric of our lives.
It's just the cycle of technology, for some people: first they fear it, then they normalize it, then they cry foul when it's gone. And yet nobody ever learns that lesson when the next cool gadget comes along.
Absolutely right. People were still claiming in the fifties that man will never get to the moon, physicists in the 1890s claimed that there is nothing more in physics to be discovered.
I am just interested in why some people are so damned hostile. I am harming no one.
