Uploadng Your Brain Essay, Research Paper
UPLOADING YOUR BRAIN?
"I’m sorry, Jim, but I just don’t think it’s right for a man’s atoms to be scattered all over creation and then brought back together again. It’s just not right." (Character,
Dr. Leonard McCoy, original Star Trek series) I wonder what Bones would have to say about swallowing, or being injected with billions of microscopic robots, or nanobots, to enter into a three dimensional cyberspace – a virtual reality environment or to enable him to live forever?
In an article that could be taken from a Star Trek: Voyager script, I think
Dr. Kurzweil is proposing the coming of the perpetual human as a result of nanobot technology. I guess it’s not that strange a conception for science and sci-fi to be bedfellows. It’s actually quite exciting to see some of the fantastic ideas once seen only in the entertainment media come to fruition. I just wish they’d work on the teleporting theory so that commuting would become a thing of the past. It would sure help the ozone layer. In due time, I suppose, but I don’t know if I’m ready for an energizer bunny type of human being.
Neural implants are now being used to counteract tremors from Parkinson’s disease as well as multiple sclerosis. Cochlear implants are helping the deaf to hear and a retinal implant is now underway in the hopes that the blind may one day see again, or for the first time. Along those lines, Dr. Kurzweil, believes that nanobot based implants will enhance the human brain and in effect I believe, create a race of super intelligent humans.
At present, the nanobots cannot be made small enough. But he states that in 30 years we will be able to miniaturize (shades the movies Fantastic Voyage and Inner Space) them and send billions of the blood cell sized scanning machines through every capillary of the brain to create a complete noninvasive scan of our every neural feature. Perhaps noninvasive on a physical level, but what about our emotional and spiritual levels?
Right now we find our rights being stepped on more and more as the federal government takes control of areas in which we should be governing ourselves. When governments, extremist groups and terrorists get hold of this of kind of technology the results will be devastating. Mind boggling, if you will. Instead of bugging your phone or house you could be slipped a "nanobot mickey" and the "spy nanobots" could monitor, from within, every move you make or control your thoughts and actions. Talk about the ultimate violation. They could be put in the food or water supply of an entire population.
Forget cryogenics or cloning. If you combine cybernetic and nanobot technologies you could upload your knowledge and experiences into a computer and then be put into a cybernetic body (the Bionic Man/Woman meet Bicentennial Man) you could, quite conceivably, live forever.
But, would you want to? I might if I could outrun a car and eat all the cheeseburgers and chocolate cake I wanted without gaining an ounce! Seriously, though, I doubt that I would. I personally do not feel comfortable with the human race having access to this kind of knowledge. We’re not exactly the most stable of species. I want to live my ‘natural’ life in my biological body as I was meant to. Not some man made super body.
Dr. Kurzweil regards the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations as a necessary next step in evolution. He sees it as moving us inexorably closer to becoming like God. Maybe God had a very good reason for our physical limitations. No, I’d rather take the natural, age-old approach to God myself – dying as we were meant to do.
UPLOADING YOUR BRAIN?
"I’m sorry, Jim, but I just don’t think it’s right for a man’s atoms to be scattered all over creation and then brought back together again. It’s just not right." (Character,
Dr. Leonard McCoy, original Star Trek series) I wonder what Bones would have to say about swallowing, or being injected with billions of microscopic robots, or nanobots, to enter into a three dimensional cyberspace – a virtual reality environment or to enable him to live forever?
In an article that could be taken from a Star Trek: Voyager script, I think
Dr. Kurzweil is proposing the coming of the perpetual human as a result of nanobot technology. I guess it’s not that strange a conception for science and sci-fi to be bedfellows. It’s actually quite exciting to see some of the fantastic ideas once seen only in the entertainment media come to fruition. I just wish they’d work on the teleporting theory so that commuting would become a thing of the past. It would sure help the ozone layer. In due time, I suppose, but I don’t know if I’m ready for an energizer bunny type of human being.
Neural implants are now being used to counteract tremors from Parkinson’s disease as well as multiple sclerosis. Cochlear implants are helping the deaf to hear and a retinal implant is now underway in the hopes that the blind may one day see again, or for the first time. Along those lines, Dr. Kurzweil, believes that nanobot based implants will enhance the human brain and in effect I believe, create a race of super intelligent humans.
At present, the nanobots cannot be made small enough. But he states that in 30 years we will be able to miniaturize (shades the movies Fantastic Voyage and Inner Space) them and send billions of the blood cell sized scanning machines through every capillary of the brain to create a complete noninvasive scan of our every neural feature. Perhaps noninvasive on a physical level, but what about our emotional and spiritual levels?
Right now we find our rights being stepped on more and more as the federal government takes control of areas in which we should be governing ourselves. When governments, extremist groups and terrorists get hold of this of kind of technology the results will be devastating. Mind boggling, if you will. Instead of bugging your phone or house you could be slipped a "nanobot mickey" and the "spy nanobots" could monitor, from within, every move you make or control your thoughts and actions. Talk about the ultimate violation. They could be put in the food or water supply of an entire population.
Forget cryogenics or cloning. If you combine cybernetic and nanobot technologies you could upload your knowledge and experiences into a computer and then be put into a cybernetic body (the Bionic Man/Woman meet Bicentennial Man) you could, quite conceivably, live forever.
But, would you want to? I might if I could outrun a car and eat all the cheeseburgers and chocolate cake I wanted without gaining an ounce! Seriously, though, I doubt that I would. I personally do not feel comfortable with the human race having access to this kind of knowledge. We’re not exactly the most stable of species. I want to live my ‘natural’ life in my biological body as I was meant to. Not some man made super body.
Dr. Kurzweil regards the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations as a necessary next step in evolution. He sees it as moving us inexorably closer to becoming like God. Maybe God had a very good reason for our physical limitations. No, I’d rather take the natural, age-old approach to God myself – dying as we were meant to do.
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