the theme of all great science fiction is that we can't engineer humanity away
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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:22 AM Author: Vigorous Mustard House
whats the probability that any type of engineering, be it vast improvements in technological prowess and material wealth or profound alterations to our genes, bodies, brains and, as a consequence, our minds, moves us closer to something we'd reasonably call a meaningful life?
without struggle and strife we move away from our connection to the deep, primordial relationship to our physical environment and the source of our phenomenal, emotive relationship to ourselves that's been given to us through the historical struggle between mind and matter.
No amount of scientific tinkering, even as time and knowledge go off to infinity, will be able to replicate the richness we feel in moments of true existential wonder, curiosity, freedom and fear.
I'm not willing to trade the richness of our human, ancestral past for a sterile, posthuman, transhuman future, however overwhelming the pain that comes with the former, however blissful the pleasures of the latter. Because when its gone, we'll understand that that pain and confusion was the reason for our hunger for survival, the basis of our will, the reason we were alive. Without it, we'll wish we were gone.
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