Talking, Walking Objects

[John Galt]

[The Comrade]

i already said i was being obtuse to make you angry because of how fetishistic you are regarding robotics. you apparently missed this.

but i enjoy your attempt at being meta with me. too bad you're terrible and can't pull it off.

[John Galt]

[The Comrade]

do what, continually run rough-shod over everything you say?

that's as good a motivation as any.

[PoS]

[John Galt]

[J.K. Gregg]

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

of course there's also the blending of artifical and natural

here is an article about the "1 million dollar man", a bionic man (completely) showcasing that we can replace roughly 70% of the human body for 1 million dollars. we can't replace like, the stomach yet. but it's coming (of course, so is organ regeneration)



http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02 ... de=2063469

what this leads to is artificial bodies for natural humans at which point we need to question what makes up a person. like if someone steals my robotic arm, did they assault me or did they rob me? or is it both?

[J.K. Gregg]

I think biological enhancement will come before full integration, but biological enhancement has its limitations. Muscles can only be enhanced so much before they tear. Brains can only be integrated with so many systems. I was thinking the other day how humanity would reproduce in a post-organic world. Would parents have designer virtual babies? How would personality develop? How fast would a person develop? Or would we stop reproducing altogether?

Ray Kurzweil says the post-organic world (he calls it the singularity) is so incomprehensible to us today that we can't even begin to imagine what our race will look like or accomplish in 100 years.