/sci/ - Science & Math

Humans begin to replace failing organs until they are nearly completely cyborg.

Extending the lifespan, but what happens to the human's mind in this period?

The elderly get Alzheimer's, dementia, etc. How can transhumanism extend lifespans but preserve the person's mind?

what does /sci/ think of transhumanism?

>>4707887
1. Bullshit.
2. Even if true, synthetic>biological all the way so why even bother with that crap.
3. >3

What degrees should someone interested in developing human enhancements such as implants and whatnot pursue?

Sup /sci/

I'm studying medicine, haven't chosen a specialty yet. How could I contribute to transhumanism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromat

Can you imagine a new colour in your mind?

Most of us can see just the 3 primary colours and the 1 million combinations of them.

But there is a possibility that some women can see 4 primary colours and 100 million combinations as opposed to our 1 million.

I would be very sad if I were colour deficient. But to these tetrachromats, we are colour deficient. Their lives must be so much more fascinating than us.

In nature, only women can possibly have supercolour vision.

Would it be possible to artificially enhance our eyes or optic nerves to attain supercolour vision?
Because I'd very much like to do it.

>>3683857
this is now a transhumanism thread.

Transhumanism sure is cool, right guys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzpzlvf0Gs

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdERgfgB9Yc&feature=player_embedded

It begins...

>http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/golden-ratio.html

lolwat

Could transhumanism be a good choice at replacing conventional religion?

>>2580992
enjoy your cancer. we'd need targeted, time-limited telomerase activation to do it carefully.

But in the long run brain-uploading or some kind of nanotech-repair is the only option, the brain does not regenerate, it can't because regenerating cells would mean memory loss.

Bumping with some transhuman images I suppose

Hey /sci/. How do you guys feel about transhumanism?

I really like to entertain the idea of mind uploading, cybernetic self-improvement, etc. To me, it seems the obvious next step in evolution since the speed out technology is developing at is far greater than the time it takes for regular evolution to take place.

However, it seems to me that a lot of people involved in the transhumanist "movement" are huge assholes, douchebags, and kind of come across as hipster scientists, or something.

What bothers me is that a lot of people seem to think there is something intrinsically "good" in being human. I'm sure if were just machines basing everything on cold logic things may not be ethically optimal, but if we kept our human characteristics and were no longer inhibited by the limits of an organic body... think of the things we could accomplish. Then again, I don't want a bunch of douchebag "activists" throwing transhuman books at me because, well, I don't even know why.

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So would any of you be willing to change your body maybe even your brain with new technology. Since the human body has a 100% failure rate I say plug me into that AI and fill me with Nanobots I'll see you meatbags later.

Why aren't paraplegics considered post-human or transhuman?

Okay /sci/,

Let's talk about the future and related concepts. What do you think life will be like in 2020, 2035, and 2050?

Also, what's your stance on Moore's Law? Do you think that technological progress is starting to decline, or are we experiencing a temporary halt before the next huge paradigm?

I think the skeptics are wrong. I hear a lot of talk about how our computing power is about to come to a grinding halt (as they've been saying for the past so many decades - and proven wrong), but then I think they fail to consider the following:

1) http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25834/?a=f
Graphene chips which will greatly improve computing power; and this is AFTER many people were skeptical about graphene, calling it fragile and non-viable. Apparently it's becoming more of a possibility every passing day.

2) Quantum computing. This will pretty much revolutionize the computing industry, and while we may not see it any time soon, it doesn't mean you can downtalk Moore's Law because of it. This will be the next paradigm in computing and it will offer huge fucking breakthroughs.

For my next question: What technologies are you anticipating the most? When do you see it happening?

Immersive virtual reality for me. If I can fly through the cosmos and walk on Jupiter within my lifetime then I know I'll be a happy man.

If we do not access such awesome technologies within my lifetime (as in it's not predicted to happen), then I plan on freezing myself and waking up in the future. I know this tech's not fully ready yet, but I'm still very young and hopeful it'll happen within the next 30 years.

Discuss, /sci/

My fellow, /sci/entists, let us debate;

Will we see full blown transhumanism by the year 2110?