#transhumanity

"A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, ..., but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy."

Here are the "slides" for my talk at Seminars about Long-Term Thinking, 15 February 2007.

"Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance.""

"In just 15 years, we'll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that's the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil."

'"Death is a tragedy," a process of suffering that rids the world of its most tested, experienced members — people whose contributions to science and the arts could only multiply with agelessness, he said.'

"While the new studies provide an initial proof of principle that human application of brain-machine interfaces is possible, the researchers emphasize that many years of development and clinical testing will be required before such neuroprosthetic devices

"Human augmentation is coming; the only question is how soon."