Is it right to use cybernetics, genetic modification etc. to change ourselves into super-humans and conquer death. I know it's still a hypothetical, but few people realise just how close we actually are to this. Conservative estimates say we'll have a "cure" for aging within 15 or 20 years, and the first bionic people are here now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jC2tingZeA
And if you think it isn't right, wouldn't you have to agree that modern medicine, transfusions, prosthetics, nutrition, surgery and the like are already crude forms this? And couldn't you also say that we've always attempted this using alchemy, yoga, western magic etc?
By the way, this movement is called Transhumanism. Well worth researching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
2007-08-23 23:41:03 · 4 answers · asked by dead_elves 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Auntie: Hear, hear! Of course the dolphins are smarter than us!
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
They'll still be having a merry old time long after we've wiped ourselvesout.
2007-08-24 03:37:42 · update #1
Auntie: Hear, hear! Of course the dolphins are smarter than us!
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
They'll still be having a merry old time long after we've wiped ourselvesout.
2007-08-24 03:37:43 · update #2
Mother Nature (or whoever gets the credit) gave us brains for a purpose. That purpose especially includes improving ourselves. Yes, we've always been doing it: that's how our brains evolved. A smart species survives better than a stupid one, all other things being equal. We are not as large as elephants, as strong as oxen, as fast as cheetahs (without mechanical assistance) but we are smarter than all the rest, with the possible exception of dolphins.
2007-08-24 02:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Carl Sagan these technologies are the next phase of our evolution.
2007-08-23 23:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution has been doing the same thing albeit at it's own speed and in it's own selective way.We shall see when we reach there.
2007-08-23 23:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
however you want to look at it ,just stay openminded, because who says that God is not advocating it. as for me im still 50/50
2007-08-23 23:51:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋