To be more than human is to be human

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

yea, I would tend to think so as well.. What about replacing the nervous system or various other organs? Stomach/intestines? NO MORE POOP?

I can live with that.

also i dunno if the brain is the seat of consciousness

Then what is? Your ass?!

and i don't see over-coming consciousness to be the same thing as over-coming humanity.

Then what do you see as overcoming humanity?

And are you saying it is impossible to over-come our humanity as long as we have a brain/other biological organs?

No, I'm saying that it is impossible as long as our conciousness remains ultimately human.

Imagine a society that has been around for trillions of years and over the years of technological development slowly replaced all of it's body parts in order to become immune to diseases and be able to travel in space and gain robot abilities!. This society no longer ever remembers what they looked like as biological life-forms before they started converting to mechanical :O

Why would totally abandoning our biological bodies be so great? I wouldn't mind travelling in space and such, but what's wrong with keeping your flesh and blood?