"robot" <robot@neo.rr.com> writes:
> First off i would like to
> now what is the ultimate goal of the post human form.
> I hear talk about
> over population, econimic gitchs due to immortality, ect. It seems to me
> that the whole point of becoming post-human is to break the limitaions of
> human restriction; and there have been statements about future issues due
> to transhumanism that are already human issues right now.
History will never end; there will never be a point where all problems are perfectly solved and there is no need for change or alertness. All new abilities will solve some old problems, transform others, and introduce new problems - but I prefer a state with many possibilities rather than a state with many limitations.
> My second q is
> that of the emotion that a human experiences. What is the relevance of an
> emotion in post-human form?
Emotions are modes of thinking, adaptations to the need of acting differently in different situations. Many emotions are fairly useless or destructive in the current or a posthuman setting, but can be changed or refined into something useful (a non-physical threat usually cannot be handled by the instinctive aggressive responses we currently have, a rationality reflex might be much better). But I think the need for modulation of cognition will remain, so our posthuman selves will indeed having emotions.
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