OT: Hardware-to-Organism Interfaces (h2oi)

[Deth B0y]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Eventually the machines would have to feed me. Eventually they may have to get power from me to keep taking care of me to keep me in the virtual world... seeing the path? I always said the Matrix didnt have to be forced on people, it would have made alot of sense if they had said we went to it voluntarily.

And what, as they say, is wrong with that?

Although my own belief structure is centered around being actually uploaded into a machine, i see nothing at all wrong with relying on machines to keep us alive.

They have kept us alive for millenia, after all - from the first time one of our ancestors picked up a stick and whacked one of his enemies half way across the clearing with a skull fracture, we've relied on machines to keep us going, and just not realized it.

Alot of people talk about us becoming cyborgs or such as if it's some sci-fi concept. But we've been cyborgs for our entire history as a species; when it was cold we wore fur. When we had to travel great distances we invented cars and trains and ships and planes. We're already cyborgs, we just need to take the next bold step of getting the technology implanted within us, instead of laying around outside of us.

Though i'm not fond of the matrix, i must also bring up a truth that it revealed: if it tastes like a steak, smells like a steak, looks like a steak, and behaves just like a steak: it's a steak, man. Imagine if no one went hungry, or ever felt sick, or ever got tired. It's impossible in the flesh world - but it's possible in a digital one. That's a big part of why i push so hard for it as a transhumanist.