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Why people wants to escape out of humanity and make themselves cyborgs?
| Your body is weak (compared to cyborg body), you can live longer (if not being immortal), overall just human with boosted abilities.
| We already are cyborgs. What's a phone but an extention of the brain?
| Because the human OS is proprietary, closed source software that is locked and cannot be modified due to both how difficult they've made it and the lobbyists that have put into law that it can't be changed, it spies on how you use it and passes that information to the next generation through DNA. Also, it's ugly, unstable and doesn't deserve the constant maintenance it needs. I wanna run Linux on my body god dammit.
| >>373605
Is it really an extension? It feels more like a vacuum of borderline irrelevant information. Yes, many tools we use are simply an extension of the body, but not all, in my Opinion.
| Becaues peoples wants to be immortal and som like the idea of shine metal like robot. Cyborg help for aging, body limit, illness.
I hope this is readable for OP, I used similar grammar.
| Because someone watched too much ghost in the shell
| Because it's one step closer to uploading the consciousness to the internet and existing incorporeally in VR forever
| It's an easy way out. Think about it: no need to eat or sleep, no feeling cold or hot, maybe no pain either.
I personally wouldn't like it though, being a fleshy human is cool too
| I don't really want to be a cyborg but if that's the price for immortality I'd say it's worth it
| Immortality is impossible, all is meaningless
| And immortality isn't impossible there are a few creatures that are immortal already we just have to figure out how to do it without giving everyone cancer
| >>374475 agreed
>>374477 It actually is if we keep the physical laws of this universe. Either humanity will run out of usable energy, the expansion of the universe will reach a speed that can't be corrected by gravity even at the atomic level or entropy will reach its end point. We could get soft immortality, but actual immortality is 100% impossible here.
| >>374507 immortality being the ability to live forever, not to be completely Invincible, in this case we could be even with that as if it didn't happen we could still be immortal, fitting (at least my) definition
| In practice we would eventually die from cancer or a plague or something but it's the theory that counts
| So I can become Dorothy
| Dude if we do we could put our brains on computers and live FOREVER!!!
| >>374848 I'm not really Keen on the idea, an emp could wipe you out completely, power loss, general corruption of data, and I'm not certain it would be possible to put a human brain on a computer and retain everything that makes us *us*
| >>374911 when you go to sleep, does someone wake up in your body with your memories?
Are you the same person biologically as you were 10 years ago, keeping in mind periodic cell death and replacement?
There's so many things nobody understands about consciousness and the human condition, but to pretend that you're gonna be less human just because you could maybe copy your brain is a bit nieve to me.
I for one am willing to try digital consciousness at least once before i die freal.
| >>375241 while fair those are unavoidable, personally I'm not sure if we could get a computer to think exactly the same as a meat brain, computers do things very differently after all, and of course random bits flipping from heat radiation and whatnot may be much worse when doing something like emulating a brain.
| Besides if we could put your brain on a computer isn't it a bit depressing knowing everything that makes you you boils down to a bunch of MOV instructions (mov is Turing complete after all)
| I'm not very keen on the idea of someone opening my brain in IDA because I thought the wrong thing :p
| >>375377 who can say that we're not already a bunch of MOV instructions on an organic processor?
>>375379 yeah, agreed, thought control is a pretty scary prospect. We'd need to make sure that couldn't happen. But with proprietary circuitry and DRM and censorship happening even today, it'd be hard to push for open source cyberbrains (is that the word?)
>>375374 RAID arrays deal with similar situations by just having multiple copies of the same data to limit corruption.
| >>375607 plus we forget stuff all the time with our meat brains. It would be interesting to look into the science of forgetfulness and thought to see how to counteract that.
| >>375610 it indeed would be, though it's also interesting to think about how might our actions or personality change if we could choose to never forget or forget something immediately.
| Cyberdicks. But it's really shame that we won't make it till real cyberpunk with feminists and China befins
| >>375610 to my point again, use your phone. Compress the information you want to remember and save it as a file in the memos directory. Gee...
| but nothing is made alone, someone have to say yolo and do it, put a brain connected in a computer, maybe thats the beggining of the future cause for me this era is not even close to the future , we are only 1% of intelligents things I can say
| Well first, is that we always should seek improvement, why weak flesh when we could be made of iron and steal? Prolong our existence to the maximum, and well, our brains use eletricity to communicate, if could make that into data, bits and bytes...would be quite something.
| To regret their decision? At least they'll discover something new.
| Emotion holds you back once itll become available well become mashines.the ones who keeo them will perform less than the mashines.
| >>378935 life is meaningless and the only thing we have is emotion, remove that you you've removed the only part of a human that has any reason to continue living
| Because immortality
| well after you was here (humans) there was no emotion in nowhere, why no when we are trying to archive now emotions are the problem now.
| >>380217 the point was if you were on a computer you could quite literally choose to never forget anything and never have memory's deteriorate
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| Isn't to be a human enough?