The Age of Transitions 2/9 (transhuman eugenics / genetics)

http://www.theageoftransitions.com
Converging technology, transhumanism, and our future in the making.

The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history of eugenics and its new cutting edge transformation. Please show this documentary to a friend!

featuring: Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Dr. Professor Kevin Warwick, Hugo de Garis, Michio Kaku, Aubrey de Grey, Anders Sandberg, Cathy O'Brien, Alan Watt, Alex Jones, Jordan Maxwell, Natasha Vita-More, Stelarc, AI brainchip chip implantable microchip human computer interface bmi bioinformatics alchemy hive mind Charles Galton Darwin T.H. Huxley Julian Aldous Royal Society secular amoral scientism social darwinism mind control politics NSF nanotech nanotechnology biotech biotechnology information technology IT Cognitive Science cognition brain george orwell 1984 meme memetics Oxford University berkeley UC scientific dictatorship dystopia asimo honda robot machine robot hubo mech suit super soldier pharmaceutical combat vehicle unmanned intelligent mkultra free will survival of the fittest bill clinton george w bush change millenium y2k 2001 2035 2010 2012 virtual reality VR mass media mainstream pop culture predictive programming trance formation of america

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[SailorBarsoom]

Did Bill Gates become a billionaire when only the very rich could afford computers, or after they became available to the middle class?

The more you can sell to, the richer you get.

[phospheneca]

DARPA makes skynet look like tin cans with strings

[AnonymousElektron]

@circusOFprecision I think you may be reading a bit too much into what I said.

So, I will clarify:

We don't have the technology to do that, but, I believe that it is well within our grasp.

The brain and the mind exist solely in the physical world, and could, with enough processing power, be emulated, just as we emulate other machines.

One day, it will hopefully be possible to live lives of near perfection.

[circusOFprecision]

@AnonymousElektron

Haha! Go burn down a factory? Good one. Well, I am an engineer myself. Our paths diverge in that you are chasing the dream of sustained and controlled material reality for the sake of personal human experience. But I see that as just vastly prolonging the illusion that we are already facing. You can't cheat death, that would mean a simulation of your brain that was infinite in actuality.

[circusOFprecision]

And if you look more closely at the esoteric traditions, you will also see that the biological computer is also producing an illusion. So basically you want to cheat time? What if you are just putting off the inevitable a virtual reality illusion? I mean, don't we already do that? Dreams? Visions? Trips? I see high technology in a different way, thus it has different implications for how we see and choose to accept/respect reality, not just understand how to manipulate nature.

[circusOFprecision]

@AnonymousElektron

Is the human mind a continuously fed loop of quantum entangled electrical particles running through neural networks? So if the input ceases, the machine disappears, thus the mind disappears...no? Where in thinking about all of this does it translate to you the essence of a particular human mind can translate into electrical activity in a circuit board? I understand the idea of new input being available now...and...? It just seems like an illusion.

[circusOFprecision]

@AnonymousElektron

The ethics is beyond me, but here are some things I think about. We aren't the same as yesterday, and we've already combined technology with biology. Agreed. But a human is neither an experience or a biological organism. It's both, and more. And that more may some day include something like your singularity. But what is the point? To have 10,000 experiences in a flash? We don't even know the context of the meta-experience, let alone how to artificially reproduce it.

[AnonymousElektron]

@circusOFprecision you may be a bit turned off by our optimism, and I will admit I get starry-eyed just thinking about it -- BUT THERE'S SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT

Your mind is just software, the hardware is unimportant.

Imagine being able to transfer yourself to a computer, and live 10,000 lives in the blink of an eye.

With enough processing power, you'd never have to make a decision, you could just fork yourself and experience the outcome of both paths.

THAT is enlightenment.

[AnonymousElektron]

@circusOFprecision technology will be a great equalizer.

I can't wait until we're all wired in, because we'll have so much to look forward to.

The human MIND is what has value, not the hardware that it runs on.

The delicate, hardware of the brain, that decays and rots with the body, over time.

It's heartbreaking to watch people you love rot away, dying a little more each day, right under your nose.

And, it doesn't have to be that way.

[AnonymousElektron]

@circusOFprecision ok, but what is human?

Infested with lice and scabies, huddled in a cave?

Maybe you don't think THAT, but it seems like the endpoint of your logic.

Humans are ALREADY so different from how we were 10,000, or even 100 years ago.

And, that, itself, IS the essence of humanity, adapting and growing.

Where do you draw the line, exactly?

Are pacemaker implants ok?

How about laser surgery to improve eyesight (or is that unnatural?)

What about a neuro-interface?

[circusOFprecision]

@AnonymousElektron

You've misinterpreted me, but that is partially my fault. Curing diseases and improving the quality of life for human beings is not even in the same ball park as the trans-humanist agenda. I am all for scientific progress. But you take it way too far in your techno-fantasy. Instead of learning how to exist in nature as we have come to be, we would rather bend the rules to our own way of seeing things and distort the picture to where we aren't even human anymore.

[AnonymousElektron]

@circusOFprecision I love the fact that, at the age of 25, I am seen as more evolutionarily worthy than some jock scumbag who used to torment me in highschool.

Translation: I can get chicks, because I have my shit together.

And epilepsy would have reduced my brain to mush years ago without modern treatment.

If it were up to YOU, we'd die of malaria and cholera, and the our biggest problem would be where our next meal is coming from, and we'd hope that at least one of our children survived.