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[A941]

If we talk about post human we think of far advanced AIs or Cyborgs, but arent we, per definition, allready beyond the  "natural" limits of being human?

If we see natural as all things which do not equal culture, then we for sure are far beyond that.

Communication, health(lifespan), strenght, society, the adaption of our bodies do not resemble that much the life of that what we have been without technology (some 40.000+ years in the past).

Or do we only consider something as posthuman if it isnt that concerned with the basic questions of the "human condition" (meaning of life, mortality, pain, origin of the universe,...)?

 

 

[Nemo888]

The use of language to transfer knowledge generationally usurped genetics millennia ago. The outcome of that is we are on the verge of transcending biology completely as a way to pass on knowledge and creating new forms of life in our own image.

 

Good chance we will crash and burn. The universe is so old the fact that we haven't met anyone else makes this look like a terrible idea.

[A941]

Possibly not, at least I hope so.

Seeing it all as language, or information which describes something and can be stored, modifyed and transfered to "foreigen systems", is something far beyond that what nature does.

Transcending biology in this way will be (or would be if we dont messs up*) something amazingly interessting with possibilities unthinkable for even the most imaginative SF-Authors.

Life could change fundamentaly and leave our understanding of it as was written down in biology books for a long time, and death may become only an inconvenience, as the Charactere Jacob Hargrave from Crysis 2 put it.

 

 

 

*The only thing to stop us is our own irrational behaviour, the horrible hardware flaw we havent been able to deal with over all those millenia.

Just look at those ISIS-Maniacs, thats frightening, damn frightening.