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Re: Cloning is just the next step forward in progress
alternate ( 02/01/2005, 09:23:01 )While I think that cloning may be beneficial to research, it does not automatically follow that cloning is the next step in evolution or even progress. While it plays some part in medical science I think the more extreme forms of progress are already underway. In fact the next step in evolution and progress (which has already begun) is in fact robotics, cybernetics ,nanotechnology, quantum computers and AI a combination of these things and more, will, over time, lead to humans more and more connected to computers, where in your daily life is a microchip not involved? Here is a little science project: Search all microchips in your home and smash every single one into pieces and see how you get by, do it at work as well, in fact go round the whole globe destroying microchips maybe with an EMP burst and see how long it’ll be before civilisation crashes, I would give it about 3 days. That’s how it is now but in the future it’ll only be exponentially more so, life expectancy will increase, intelligent robots will begin to walk the earth.Robot rights acts will be brought in place where you will not be able to discriminate robots or any intelligent but technically inferior species. One day they will decide they do not need us, they can make themselves, we need them but they do not need us, that’s natural logic, those of whom we consider no longer an asset we will one day push aside like in the case of immigration, they are an asset now, then it gets out of hand (I am in the UK) and it can go two ways, either a minority with rights has more rights than a majority for while they are an asset and left to continue they take over, or (and most likely) when they no longer become beneficial to the economy they’ll be pushed aside, no one wins in long terms unless there is control.However unlike dealing with immigrants or even races you cannot control robots, because we will always rely on them more than they will eventually rely on us, we (to the robots) are the expendable asset, and only an asset while we are upgrading them more and more each day to the point they can quiet happily look after and "breed" themselves.While the human brain is complex to us today, does not mean we will never emulate it in some computer form, if you think about it carefully you’ll realise that at its core the brain is just made up of atoms, the same atoms exist in your computer and also in a lump of wood, it is essentially the arrangements and configurations, there is nothing mystical there.UNLESS you believe (and there’s nothing wrong with the belief) that somehow as soon as you have reached such a configuration the soul goes into the machine, so to speak, like some people believe the soul goes in a baby at or sometime after conception, like the configurations are enough for a new soul.We will live longer when they are able to implement downloading your brain into a microprocessor, in fact, technically it may be possible to be immortal assuming someone is always around to look after your downloaded brain file, this could be the far future but you can never be absolutely 100% positive of that, it may be that computer science leaps forward suddenly quicker than other areas of study and becomes a more serious advantage sooner.
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