I don't think that's going to work...
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I don't think that's going to work...
The Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish can reverse its aging process WHENEVER THE FUCK IT WANTS TO.
To be fair, while it's super crazy, it's not outside the realm of possibilities even if we only advanced current technology and never truly invented something new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gohron
We will all have been dead for hundreds if not thousands of years before anything could do this, though.
It also doesn't have a brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Don't act like you're better.
I'm better.
You think you are.
Therefore I am.
I've heard of the singularity, I'm just not sure I believe in it. No matter what tech we get, we're still us. We're still a bunch of tool-using monkeys at heart, with everything good and bad that entails. I fling my poop at you!
I'm not too worried about the DNA issue, honestly. DNA is data. We're really, really good at copying data.
James
The point of the singularity movement is that an A.I. that is smarter than man will be the last thing man will ever have to invent. It addresses the "poop flinging" thing better than anything else out there, by providing a way to remove human fallibility from any situation we want.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
The immortality part is honestly, to me at least, the much less important/impactful part. The issues with that are less technical and more philosophical. We may not ever be able to fully transfer a consciousness into a machine, and this is more likely proposing that we can duplicate it. So where does that leave the person being duplicated? We've just created an exact copy of you in a computer, that feels and thinks like you and thinks that it is you, but you're still here and are still going to die. Does that really create immortality?