Relax Jim. I'm sure Sandtrap meant no slight.

Okay. Let's just sit down a minute here. I knew this was going to lure you of all people here.

"And that's when the attack comes, not from the front, but from the side.

One Goji, you didn't even know was there."

XD

Look at your body. What is it? It's the result of a very, very long line of evolution. A process that's slowly been perfected to the best that it can be made over a very long period of slow, gradual, natural adjustments.

It's hardly the best that it can be made. As you've said it, our bodies are products of evolution. i.e. mutations, changes which are seeded based on positive reaction to environmental stimuli.

But still holds merit.

What holds merit?

We fight to survive. To keep going. And that means, that life, the life we hold, is important.

Why? I know you explain it in the next line, but that's basically begging the question.

Why is it important? Are you referring to intrinsic importance? Extrinsic? Who is the observer to create valuation of importance here?

Because if it wasn't, why would we fight so hard to keep it?

Appeal to nature here. All appeals to nature like this can easily be defeated by, well, other appeals to nature: what if the logical endpoint of evolution is to get to a point where a species is intelligent enough to create synthetic replacements?

Answer: You can't operate on one hypothetical without looking at the other.

You would abuse it.

I would say that "abuse" of it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Let alone perfectly replicating them into a synthetic counterpart.

Replication isn't the purpose- revision is.

What happens, when you take away what you have, that already functions well on it's own? What happens, when you replace it with something that functions better, but lacks the spark and the feeling that only a hand, or an arm will ever provide?

You negate the problems of associated with flesh. You upgrade your body. And you upgrade your mind.

You lose control. You lose feeling.

Erm... you do realize that feelings are simply neurotransmitters traveling through axons throughout your body and registering electrical impulses right? And that prosthetic arms are being developed which can perfectly replicate the sensation of touch as well, correct? If you truly want feeling, it can still be done with cybernetics.

Your survival instinct, the will to survive another day, vanishes.

And perhaps we can replace it with something better. Something more cerebral.

And when that happens, every door is open to all the darkest things that lurk in our heads.

I'm ready.

Then again, I'm super crazy supportive when it comes to synthetics/AI/H+ movements in general.

Thoughts on Cybernetic Military Implements

Support it

Thoughts on Cybernetic Implements

Heavily support it

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Quote from: GodspeedGojira! on October 25, 2014, 09:31:18 PM

"End of the line for you, handsome. You're extinct!"

Someone doesn't shave their legs.

Spoiler

wat

Her legs are hairy.

Quote from: GodspeedGojira! on October 25, 2014, 09:31:18 PM

"End of the line for you, handsome. You're extinct!"

Someone doesn't shave their legs.

And look at this one that only 3-4 other people enjoy

<140 IQ and above or get out

I don't understand. Less than 140 IQ and above?

Well an easy way to show you would be the effect of certain neurotransmitters on recollection proving that there's some form of connection between neurons/synapses and memory. I don't understand what your problem is with the current model tho-

How is that memories can be stored in one physical location anyway? We're organic, meaning unique chemical structures are the only way to hard wire that kind of information in a physical manner (correct me if I'm wrong, but how else can organic matter store information?).

... you should definitely look into neural encoding. It's too vast a concept for me to explain in a series of replies, but I think you'll find more than a few answers if you know what you're looking for.

Hey, neither can I

Not a fun problem

Quote from: GodspeedGojira! on October 25, 2014, 10:54:46 PM

YouTube

nah

But I play the shit out of Blops 2

No I meant preordering! I'd rather wait for the game to come out

nah

Paleontology
Math
Sci fi media
H+
AI
Superman
Emotions and personal stuff

I should say that several of these, and a lot of other ones that could be on the list, subjects I only enjoy talking about with certain people.

I want an update on this. As if 343 haven't commented.

Confirmed false by Frankie.

Good thing you've never had an erection which is why you had to adopt.

I have no idea what I just watched. Why is the Didact from Halo 4 in there?

Villain robot-guy-man! He's named Ultron and you don't wanna mess with him. Of course, you don't want to create him either. But that's exactly what Iron Man does. Ultron is basically Stark's experiment gone wrong.

Why is there a Hulk Ironman?

So he can fight Hulk obviouslyyyyy

I thought Captain America's shield could not be broken?

Nobody messes with Ultron!

The dude at the end looked like the Didact, kek.

DUDE???

YOU DON'T GET TO CALL ULTRON "DUDE"

YOU NEED TO CALL HIM "MASTER ULTRON"

REPEAT AFTER ME

master

ultron