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Having computers for brains, in my opinion, transcends the definition of human, as the brain is the seat of conciousness.
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yea, I would tend to think so as well.. What about replacing the nervous system or various other organs? Stomach/intestines? NO MORE POOP?
also i dunno if the brain is the seat of consciousness and i don't see over-coming consciousness to be the same thing as over-coming humanity.
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If you had an elephant brain in a human body, that would be one thing, but a human brain in a mechanical/cybernetic body is still, in my opinion, human.
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Even if it's a highly modified human brain in a highly modified body, huh? Why draw a line of distinction at all between our primate ancestors and ourselves?
And are you saying it is impossible to over-come our humanity as long as we have a brain/other biological organs?
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I suppose it could be. But is that neccessarily something good?
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Maybe. Is it necessarily something bad? What does goodness have to do with it...
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By robots, you mean artifical lifeforms that evolve instead of us?
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By robots I mean US if we replaced every organ (or really most of them) in the body including the brain so that we were mostly/entirely mechanical. Like the robots in sirens of titan!
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