…because we’d like to have the best physical abilities that any species has in terms of moving, seeing, hearing, strength etc. From the mind’s perspective, an organ that could upgrade itself to store more, to experience more, to work faster, to be more accurate. And it doesn’t stop there – reading others’ minds, telepathy…
We will see the beginning of all this in our lifetime. The progress might be slow, so slow that perhaps later generations wouldn’t realise how we’d lived without most of the artificial things that they would be taking for granted. How would this affect the experiences of life that we go through now – joy, sorrow, pain, ecstasy, spirituality? How long before what we call human would give way to a being that would probably exist forever, possibly without living? Will they even realise it when it happens?
The man… the machine
This is from my first post on what I called the augmented human, back in 2009. And I continue to ask myself what the man-made man will be like.
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