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Improvement
4/5/2010 - 00:21:23 - 1 comments - By D47
Recently I had an interesting exchange with some people about the reason we as a species would want to surpass our current condition and improve ourselves as a whole by whatever means we can manage.

Personally I think that it is very worth our while to explore technologies that would improve our capacity to think and operate as well as to increase our lifespan as much as we would like. But there are others who are comfortable living in the current human condition and believe that any long term improvement methods will not be of any gain to the human species and the individual experience.

A point put forward against transhumanism is that we currently possess all the necessary abilities and features to live acceptably or as best as we ever could. This may be true, but any casual observer can see the current situation as far from acceptable. There is no telling how long it will take and if it will ever come to pass that our species finds itself in an organisational configuration that each individual can happily accept without expanding our own capabilities artificially. We don't know if this is the limit of our society and so we need to find the limit and shape ourselves to experience it. If this turns out to be as far as we can go than so be it, we will never know if we don't search.

I think that by improving ourselves and humanity itself; we will dramatically increase our odds of materialising such a utopia. It may even turn out that by transforming ourselves into a particular form; mere human trivialities we experience today will no longer be an issue for such an entity. It may be that it will no longer be necessary to exist in a functioning society at all if we take the right form, a singular universal gaia type organism for example.

I however don't think a utopia would be a very nice ending to humanity, a society that has reached a plateau in drive and curiosity that merely continues perpetually in the same state unchanged may as well not exist at all. If it's there or not there; what difference would it make? it doesn't interact with the universal stage at all. Much more desirable would be a continually explorative and curious existence. That would be much more acceptable, exciting and bearable than the restricted and scheduled life demanded of a utopian society. I'd rather live in a chaotic free for all than endure an enforced way of life.

I only wish that we don't stop our technological progression at this point and that we continue with the same veracity we have shown in the past; Unhindered by unfounded desires such as remaining "human". We are thought and experience, our vessel is a tool to accommodate our minds and interact physically with the world; nothing more.

I cannot simply become complacent with my current form and living condition, I find my surroundings and human form severely oppressive. My clumsy imprecise and limited mortal vessel gives me the feeling of experiencing life as if I had weights attached to all aspects of my body and mind. I think it is natural and imperative for our own enlightenment that we discover ways to lift the weights that pull us down to earth and learn to master the natural laws of our peculiar reality and spread ourselves to the utter limits. Searching for the ultimate pleasure and comfort. Just as we have been stumbling towards since we sharpened our first shards of rock.

In the face of a meaningless universe and a pointless existence; what better to do than explore, and exhaust every possible means to have fun.
 
thats nice (guest) (18/7/2010 - 01:13:57)
yay!
 
 
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