Let’s postulate that death can simply be engineered away. That human brains can be modeled in the Cloud and data can be copied back and forth from wetware to silicon. Then what do we become? A race of gods? or just a pile of nodes, acting out virtual fantasies until the heat death of the universe pulls the plug? That’s not post- or trans-humanism, it’s null-humanism.
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egads. I sound so pompous. It sounded better in my head.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
egads. I sound so pompous. It sounded better in my head.