Originally posted by Bat Dude
I'd be very careful with tampering with human DNA to become some "technological god" or whatever you think you'd become.In the end, all you'd be is a half-mechanical monstrosity and would have lost your humanity.
I realize this is not the religion section, but I'll say it anyway: Jesus didn't come to earth to redeem half-human/half-machine hybrids. He came to earth to redeem human beings.
I do not fear your dull and uninteresting interpretation of God...
What a miraculous transformation is it to replace all of my blood cells with cybernetic material capable of supplying my body with 265-350 times it's normal amount of oxygen? Implications are as astonishing as allowing our fragile bodies to survive unaided after losing over 90% our blood in the most fatal of incidents? To detoxify snake bites? To sprint all out, something that a person cannot sustain for more than a few seconds, for half an hour without even breathing heavy? To hold our breath for hours and hours and hours? Really? That is really possible? Oh God Damn I hope it is.
Is making human beings immune to all cancers and disabilities not right? Not just? Not rationalized? Not logical? That God wants us to play small and pathetic? I don't believe whatever God may be, that It created the perplexities of this cosmos to serve our needs, or for us, you dull-minded humanocentric fool. A God capable of such miracles as this Cosmos would not concieve a person with down syndrome, so that her disorder could get her mocked and made fun of from grade school up?...what a shame it is for a human to believe such a thing has a reason or rhyme to it, that it's God's mysterious mechanism to create these misfortunate freaks of nature to serve no no no absolutely NO purpose to society.
And btw, I wouldn't be a 'half cyborg'. Your viewpoint of the proposed Human Version 2.0 seems to be that of the million dollar man.
However, I'll tell you it's more like Doctor Manhattan and how the subtraction of his atomic polarity and charge allowed his psiconscious essence to reassemble his own body from the subatomic, ergo intrinsic (as in the fundamental essence of matter), level.
Except not on the subatomic level, on the molecular level, nanotechnologies have implications in nanoassembly and factories, they cannot go into and manipulate the atoms within the molecules...but in a thousand years after the Utopian Age, yocto-scopic technologies will be able to.
But even with the molecular-factories within the digital replacements for our cells, our capabilites would expand such that we would all look like stunning 18 year-olds picked from modelling agencies, immortal, super strong, and capable of learning everything known to man in the field of, for example, mathematics, within hours of study...and retaining that information in absolute detail, able to pull it for use on a whim, for all eternity.