This kind of stuff would probably be better on a twitter... but I don't want to do that to my dignity.
Today, I found out what Sweet & Low tastes like by itself because my philosophy professor dared me to.
(this was actually on the twelfth)
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Today...
I want to start this thing where i try to post every day with at least something I thought about or saw...
Today, I saw a guy step in a puddle. As his foot went in, the water went about to his ankle, but he didn't break stride. As I walked away, I wondered if he thought, "Wow, that puddle was way deeper than I thought it was."
Today, I saw a guy step in a puddle. As his foot went in, the water went about to his ankle, but he didn't break stride. As I walked away, I wondered if he thought, "Wow, that puddle was way deeper than I thought it was."
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Transhumanist Movement
I'll cut to the chase...
The transhumanist movement makes me sick. Absolutely sick. Not only is it another group of over-educated stuck-up scientists with the most holier-than-thou attitude, but they are constantly striving to gain immortality on this Earth. I have a lot of issues with this.
1) Over population. If no one died, the population would skyrocket. Okay, say we said no more having kids. Well then the entire earth for all of eternity would be comprised of the same people always. Presidents, dictators, radicals, idiots, and the like would never die and we would all be stuck at the same age and not getting older. We would literally have the same neighbors with the same habits and going to the same job 5 days a week for the rest of eternity.
2) That's not what God has in store for us. Whether you believe or not, we are simply not here to live forever. It makes no logistical sense and for the religious perspective, it is ludicrous.
3) Say we gained the ultimate transhumanist dream and all became immortal. What next? Technology would continue forward while the human race does not. Now we can all be alive to see the machines take over. Transhumanists want to replace our bodies with machines. To upload our brains onto hard drives and them turn us into terminator machines.
"We would be transcending our physical limits" a transhumanist would say.
"not our mental ones," I would contest. "Additionally, we would be annihilating the very things which make us human."
"but we would be able to perceive things and gain memories."
"But we would be gaining the same memories over and over and logging them and sorting them like a computer. We would be gaining them through artificial eyes and storing them on hard drives. We might remember our names but what we 'see' in the mirror would be the same mass-produced body that everyone else has. we would kill the individual and all be clones. If our bodies and genes is what gives us our talents and differences, but are ultimately what kills us, I would rather have that," I would say.
These people just make me sick.
The transhumanist movement makes me sick. Absolutely sick. Not only is it another group of over-educated stuck-up scientists with the most holier-than-thou attitude, but they are constantly striving to gain immortality on this Earth. I have a lot of issues with this.
1) Over population. If no one died, the population would skyrocket. Okay, say we said no more having kids. Well then the entire earth for all of eternity would be comprised of the same people always. Presidents, dictators, radicals, idiots, and the like would never die and we would all be stuck at the same age and not getting older. We would literally have the same neighbors with the same habits and going to the same job 5 days a week for the rest of eternity.
2) That's not what God has in store for us. Whether you believe or not, we are simply not here to live forever. It makes no logistical sense and for the religious perspective, it is ludicrous.
3) Say we gained the ultimate transhumanist dream and all became immortal. What next? Technology would continue forward while the human race does not. Now we can all be alive to see the machines take over. Transhumanists want to replace our bodies with machines. To upload our brains onto hard drives and them turn us into terminator machines.
"We would be transcending our physical limits" a transhumanist would say.
"not our mental ones," I would contest. "Additionally, we would be annihilating the very things which make us human."
"but we would be able to perceive things and gain memories."
"But we would be gaining the same memories over and over and logging them and sorting them like a computer. We would be gaining them through artificial eyes and storing them on hard drives. We might remember our names but what we 'see' in the mirror would be the same mass-produced body that everyone else has. we would kill the individual and all be clones. If our bodies and genes is what gives us our talents and differences, but are ultimately what kills us, I would rather have that," I would say.
These people just make me sick.
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