Transhumanism vs Solution for Human Deficits

The Transhumanism movement advocates the use of technology to allow humans to evolve from human to transhuman, or posthuman.

Companies such as Primo Posthuman have been planning since the turn of the century to create smart skin that can allow humans to become H+, or better than human.

Their website highlights their plan to allow us to be super human, and highlights various parts of the human skeleton that could be enhanced using present and future technologies.

They quote the histories of our eyesight, and how we have moved on since magnifying glasses, to basic glasses, to contact lenses, cataract removal, corneal sculpting to the use of silicon retinal implants in 1999. They use this history to assume there has to be a forward trend that includes total bionic eyes to see 'better than human'.

The company sites the history of human hearing from technological advancements like speaking tubes in the 1700's, ear trumpets in the 1800's to hearing aids in the 1900's, cochlear bionic implants in the 1960's to digital signal processing in 1984. Again, they assume we must continue this trend and completely replace our 'sub-standard' human ears with more advanced, finely tuned digital frequency hearing systems allowing much improved 'parabolic' hearing.

We apparently need to have total skin augmentation because our history has shown the use of dyes, tatoos, piercings, and skin tissue was the first to be engineered and grafted. Therefore according to the transhumanists, we must completely replace our human skin with synthetic active skin, that does not require the need of clothing. It will be multi textured, and can change its colour, just like 'real' skin!!

They even go so far as to suggest that we require a spinal upgrade by using a
1,000,000 terabit/sec optical backbone (one billion times more capacity than a human spinal cord). We will require an in vivo fibre optics communication back bone to allow us to 'hear our body speaking'.

Due to the fact that at some stage in our history the human race shrunk down to only 10,000 separate blood lines, we have a limited gene pool, and therefore suffer to this day from DNA mutations, the most common being, myopia (short-sightedness), and as humans we do suffer from blindness, deafness, and disablilities. These are problems that prevent people experiencing full human functionality. These are the areas that I believe technology can help. Those of us who wear glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, pace makers, cochlear implants are not posthuman, we are repairing the faults of mutated DNA.

The difference between this argument for Solutions for Human Deficits vs Transhumanism needs establishing. On one hand you are making yourself more human, if you like, and the other is making you more artificial, more robot.

The transhumanist movement will continue unabaited with their ideological future of immortality, but as human beings we need to be very careful that we do not stray too far from our natural path. Yes, we need to evolve and we will, but we do not need technology to do this, just patience.

Looks a lot like the real thing...ermm!

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Yes, this is your potential future, is that what you want for your grandkids?
Surely we wouldn't need special skin that protects us from sunlight if we hadn't induced global warming in the first place! Skin that changes colour! Are you sure there is a black model?
Great!! Smart skin, does everything real skin does!! Good to know the scientists are putting their brains to good use. (sigh)
But where's the 12" retractable penis which ejaculates millions of nano-sperm?? So sad geeks like Nick Bostrom can get it up with his expensive electronic doll!!?

Some Questions for the TransHumanist...

1: What happens if you conquer longevity problems i.e the aging process, but don't find a suitable host planet in time, do we enforce mandatory sterilisation of women?

2: If we get to a point in our future when the developed world has to follow suit with China and limit babies being born, How do we stop illegal pregnancy and baby abandonment? How much will a one- per- lifespan baby license cost? Will the poor be able to obtain the latest cognitive implant or artificial neuron capacitor, or will we see the rich being the brightest and the poor being the uneducated? Do you care?

3: Surely the point of reproduction is to fulfill a human need to recreate, rear, and bond with your children. So why do you want us to stop nature and nurture?

4: Why do you want us to forget that we are all a culmination of thousands of centuries of learnt knowledge? No one man possesses all knowledge, or is it that we will live in a collective mind like the BORG? A blend of one mind, the internet and one religion, one voice, one huge totalitarian mess!

5: Finally, Why do you hate being human? Is it because, due to your egg-shaped heads, nerdy glasses, and intelligence, you were often bullied at school, but found your true destiny in a world run by the same as you/?

To be human is to be proud, to be robot is to be 10010111010001101000!!! Understand??!!!

What is wrong with being HUMAN?

Please, I encourage you all reading this blog to take a break from what you are doing, and watch the above piece of footage. Do not watch it because I agree with the Transhumanist campaign, I am totally opposed, but educate yourself, it could be the most important thing you do today.

The transhumanist campaign pushes a belief system that mankind, human beings are flawed. The transhumanist campaign believes we should stop being human and become a machine.

The transhumanist campaign believes that immortality is the future. They believe they can alter the course of mankind by genetic engineering, cognitive implants, and mechanised internal organs. We will stop being human at this point. Our brains rely on a feedback system of our nerve endings to allow us to experience living. We can see, hear, touch, smell and exist from the two way actions of our nerves and neurons interacting with the physical world.

Think for a moment about what happens if you live another hundred years. Firstly, it is a proven fact that after the age of approx. 80 years old our brain cells deteriorate incredibly fast, even elderly people without dementia or alzheimers start losing it, you might say. Now, imagine your mind is going but the mechanised organs running your physical system keep going, you do not have the right to suicide, that is now the right of the state. Your mind is going, and you no longer have the capacity to learn or store more memories, you NEED a cognitive implant. So part of your brain is now robot. You no longer feel, see, smell, taste, you rely on experiencing the world as an AIBO robot does. You cannot interact or be human anymore. You will be computer.

Now think about that for a moment, and forget the egg heads (TED) dream of a totalitarian, perpetual consumer capable of no free thought, or ability to commit crime or to love, or to hate.

We are HUMAN, We are NOT MECHANOID<> Just fucking ANNOYED!!

Nick Bostrom - The Despiser of Human Nature

This scary little man would love us all to, apparently, evolve into robots. I was going to write a lengthy write up on this man, but watch the video, for as long as you can stand, and the fool ridicules himself. He has a vision, backed up by the CIA and TED, and we won't stand by and let him change the beauty that is HUMAN!

Be proud to be a human being, don't believe we need to become mechanised to progress, we havent needed it for over a million years, why start now?!?!