Comments by "" (@billyandrew) on "Pursuit of Wonder"
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You'd have to hope you didn't get dementia, Parkinson's etc.
I know a lady who turns 103 this year.
She's tired of living and is happy to cash in her chips, she says.
Two husbands gone, all of her contempories, too, her own children entering old age...I can see where it might not be all fun.
Her mind is still as sharp as a razor, although her body is failing her, worn out, basically.
I doubt she'd opt for physical augmentation, somehow, more on the principle of wanting to find the exit door, rather than objection to technology.
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A friend of mine of over 20 yrs had a socket implanted directly into his brain about thirty, maybe forty years ago.
He was on a science programme on UK television called Tomorrow's World.
Before having the implant he suffered massive fits, which reached the stage they were becoming life-threatening.
Since then sensors in the implant, measuring his brainwaves, know when he is about to have a seizure and administer a quick electric shock directly into a specific area in his brain, halting the seizure, before it has a chance to develop.
The same technology was implanted into a psychotic patient to shock him out of psychopathic rages about a decade ago.
We already have both software and hardware that enable humans and even animals, in some cases, to interact remotely and directly with computers.
We have titanium reproductions of bones.
We have organ transplants.
We have bionic limbs.
We have cell skin reproduction.
We have laser printers.
A small boy, paralysed, kicked the opening ball at the world cup, just a few years ago, because a scientist, working with a team of engineers, set about making an exoskeleton that was attached to the boy's spinal cord that would enable him to do so.
I read of an account, about five years ago, of somebody in Russia having an entire head transplant, although I've been unable to verify if it's scientifically true.
We know a Chinese doctor produced a human clone two years ago.
The future begins a millisecond after you think about it.
It's a lot closer than you think.
Imagine if you lost a limb this minute and were offered a bionic limb to replace it...a limb that was stronger, faster, more reliable.
Would you take it?
These choices start off as medical choices, but, as the story states, it's easy, due to pressures, to opt for change for cosmetic reasons.
Male surgery has taken off in recent years.
The most common treatment is obvious, given male insecurity.
The second most common?
Chest augmentation.
Discs of plastic inserted between the ribcage and the fat tissue, because guys can't be bothered to exercise, but are happy to have frisbies inside their body to give them a manly chest.
You couldn't make this shit up.
Unless you were a science fiction writer.
I'm in my 60s now and expect to see much of what's in this story come to pass long before I pop my clogs.
There really isn't much for us to imagine.
The only thing stopping it all from happening are safeguards.
The question is how long will they remain?
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Nah. Lol.
The other side of the black hole is where the 3D, 4D or more print is produced.
We go in, the copy comes out.
So what, if what we regard as the original is destroyed in the process?!
The information was successfully transfered, so the being will be replicated, although in feotal form, to regrow...again...and again...and...
There's multiverses, their number beyond comprehension, for countless rebirths.
The black hole itself, having served it's purpose in copying everything, pops out of existence, leaving a void, ready to be refilled with another Big Bang.
Crazy?
As much as some of the stuff propounded by physics, to some degree more, to another degree less (Shroedinger's Cat, Bell's Theorum, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle)
and it looks like rules and laws either don't apply, apply how the individual percieves them or can be twisted and bent to suit purpose.
Throw in Religion with a capital 'R' and the same crazy/not crazy option is on tbe table.
Am I a fool or a romantic optimist?
It doesn't matter, because nobody can say with any degree of certainty what rules and laws apply on the other side of a black hole.
Lol.
Science: "We're gonna beat you, blackhole!"
Blackhole: "Hold my beer!"
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