Biological vs.Mechanical

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[joebot1]

Morse law?

[TristanPEJ]

yeah

[happyjesus123]

Moore's law is the idea that capacity doubles every two years. This has been true for harddisk space and processor speed but not for memory speed. The wikipedia article on it seems decent. At some point we may get to the end of Moore's law due to physical limitations in miniaturization. There seems to be lots of room to improve software though. Software is often times what actually matters to an application/user.

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[rowsdowersavesus]

I like the new sign out! :D

[thegreatestape]

I do have one major question though. What do we do about our organic brain? We could put our memories and mind into a mechanical brain, but once our organic brain was gone, wouldnt that mechanical brain be just a perfect copy and not our "original" conciousness? isint our life reliant on our personal one of a kid brain matter? Perhaps if we replaced peices of our brains with machine we could eventually acheive continiuty in conciousness by slowly digitizing our brain peice by peice.

[thegreatestape]

You mentioned lifespan in organic beings. Your right. Even if we eliminated aging completely and got rid of all disease we would still be susceptible to fatal accidents. Those will always be unavoidable. The only thing I could think of would be SUPER and i mean SUPER nanobots that could repair any part of the body and restart the heart should you die or be drastically injured. But I dont see that coming for a long time :p basic nano's sure, but not that advanced.

[DamNationDiplomat]

Even though human nature and biological limits can be somewhat of a nuisance, i don't think we should give up on life itsself. In terms of reproduction, we would simply recycle genetic problems from whatever generation began this technological age, and we would cease to acquire disease immunities, or any other advantages over our predecessors. Evolution may be a brutal process, but we can't transcend nature without inviting dire consequences; it's newton's third law applied philisohically.