Quote from:  on August 13, 2015, 11:29:26 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2015, 11:05:00 AM

Quote from:  on August 13, 2015, 11:03:18 AM

I'd wager it would be cybernetics. And I'm not talking just prosthetics. I mean the whole full blown deal. Every part in your body being substituted with something mechanical.

that sounds like hell to me

i mean, being a sack of meat is no picnic, but i'll never understand this forum's fascination with transhumanistic endeavors

you'd have to make the perfect machine

That's also why I tossed in organic modification too, like genes and such. We could still be sacks of meat.

But genetically enchanced sacks of meat. Honestly, to me, I think the organic route comes first. If you can understand the base first, then you can do the heavy modifications.

Think about it Verb. Say you genetically modify somebody up a bit. Turn off their pain receptors. Fiddle around with stuff that makes people feel like shit. Rewire all the stuff that can make a person feel like shit, make a person act like shit, and reverse it.

I don't see why there isn't any feasible reason because there's critters and lifeforms out there that don't feel pain. I figure, the more we understand about ourselves, and other biology, the more chance we have of making ourselves better than we are now.

Pain is kind of important, though, it is a warning from our body that something is banjaxed.

Quote from: Actual Cannibal John Cena on August 13, 2015, 12:21:42 PM

Pain is kind of important, though, it is a warning from our body that something is banjaxed.

Well, I think we should be able to stop it after awhile. Like, if my leg is fractured, the only thing preventing me from taking myself to the hospital is, well, my fractured leg. It hurts when I use it. I should be able to say, "Okay, yeah, I get it, my leg is fractured. You don't have to keep 'warning' me."

Maybe being a robot would solve that problem, but being a robot introduces an entire laundry list of its own problems.

It's just a stupid idea.

Quote from: Actual Cannibal John Cena on August 13, 2015, 12:21:42 PM

Quote from:  on August 13, 2015, 11:29:26 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on August 13, 2015, 11:05:00 AM

Quote from:  on August 13, 2015, 11:03:18 AM

I'd wager it would be cybernetics. And I'm not talking just prosthetics. I mean the whole full blown deal. Every part in your body being substituted with something mechanical.

that sounds like hell to me

i mean, being a sack of meat is no picnic, but i'll never understand this forum's fascination with transhumanistic endeavors

you'd have to make the perfect machine

That's also why I tossed in organic modification too, like genes and such. We could still be sacks of meat.

But genetically enchanced sacks of meat. Honestly, to me, I think the organic route comes first. If you can understand the base first, then you can do the heavy modifications.

Think about it Verb. Say you genetically modify somebody up a bit. Turn off their pain receptors. Fiddle around with stuff that makes people feel like shit. Rewire all the stuff that can make a person feel like shit, make a person act like shit, and reverse it.

I don't see why there isn't any feasible reason because there's critters and lifeforms out there that don't feel pain. I figure, the more we understand about ourselves, and other biology, the more chance we have of making ourselves better than we are now.

Pain is kind of important, though, it is a warning from our body that something is banjaxed.

Not if you rewired your biology in another manner. Plants, at the moment, don't feel pain as far as we know, and yet they actively know and act when something is wrong with them.