^this.High speed internet. I don't think anything else is required. Well ok, probably a library too.
I'll third that for truth - but don't forget some awesome computers to go with the 'net, for all the video games. :laughing:High speed internet. I don't think anything else is required. Well ok, probably a library too.
There is a reason why we evolved to sexually reproduce instead of asexually even though it is much less efficient. Variety. If we are all cloned then our evolution from just a personality type to the great **** Nobilus, will never happen.A pharmaceutics capable of doing the emotion-suppressing drug Prozium (film: Equilibirum).
A clone factory (body and mind) as a new way of "reproduction".
A cyborg lab capable of installing a chip for increasing memory and automatizing some mental processes (coprocessor), and if possible wireless communication.
Hm that would be tricky. I think that we should develop more efficient food supply and then modify our bodies to be bigger, stronger and smarter than the conventional human, which would take more food. I also think that our town should be the first mars colony. That way we don't need fences to keep away the morons.How about modifying our own bodies so we don't have to eat that much? There could be a solar powered machine that creates multiple amounts of food.
I agree partly. When you say "there is a reason" I would say "there is a cause". I mean, it works with the consequences you pointed, it favors evolution because it favors diversity. But:There is a reason why we evolved to sexually reproduce instead of asexually even though it is much less efficient. Variety. If we are all cloned then our evolution from just a personality type to the great **** Nobilus, will never happen.
We need a breeding program built to accelerate our evolution and create **** Nobilus. Also, our biology part of the university will be mostly geared towards developing genetic implants to give to our children to increase physical and mental abilities.
The cause and effect process is the reason I was referring to.I agree partly. When you say "there is a reason" I would say "there is a cause". I mean, it works with the consequences you pointed, it favors evolution because it favors diversity. But:
Evolution simply happens, it does not have to happen. I mean, there is no a moral law that forces life to evolve, it is only a cause-consequence relation. Things in nature are not better or worse (in human terms, valorations), simply are or aren't. I like to be an **** Sapiens (for evident reasons) and not an amoebe, but I do not feel mysel forced to make (or contribute to the existence) more evolved beings if I cannot apply these properties to myself (being also a more evolved being). It's like if I were forced to have children, contributing to the existence of the humanity...
Actually, the **** Sapiens is not evolving. Our technology allow to us not being limited to the better/worse genes we have, the expectatives of life and possibility of having descendence is similar to most humans. There is no more "the stronger have more children...". For evolving, we have only to possible ways: eugenics and/or genetic manipulation. And except supressing some severe genetic diseases, I think it could be better not doing it. Take the example of the film "Gattaca".
When I speak about clones, I also mentioned "clonig minds". It's in some way a form of "inmortality". And as I like me, why not more of me? It would be nice :laughing:
The idea of making an A.I or better than this, cloning our minds in artificial brains, is more interesting for me than the idea of "long term evolution". After all, organic beings will be always organic beings... reproduction of consciences, instead reproduction of bodies.
So you think people in third world nations are less intelligent or, in general terms, have worse genes that people in first world. Could you prove that? At most, what is "reproducing without control" in such situation is not bad genes but bad ideas, bad education. A lower class human is nurtured by a worse education and influence, which he probably will apply to descendants, but is an issue about ideas, not genes.The cause and effect process is the reason I was referring to.
Actually humans are currently evolving, or rather devolving as the lower class stupider people who can't afford birth control have more children making us evolve to be stupider.
What maybe you didn't notice is that this is not simply a moral issue. The question is, what you value as good (an eugenic resulting future) is only your personal opinion, of course respectable. The is no such a property outside your mind, or another. The concepts of good/bad, right/wrong, etc, do no exist in Nature. Excuse me if I'm wrong, but you seem to deffend your position as "Universal" which is impossible, as what you perceive as "good" would be good by itself. I disagree at this point. Valorations are always subjective.I put little value on human morals and the way we like to think. I prefer the reasoning of the universe. We have within our grasp the ability to design a simple breeding program that will allow for the good genes to be passed on and the bad ones to be left behind like in natural selection and you say it's not a good idea? A breeding program and making artificial immortality are not mutally exclusive. You can design both.