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Old 07-April-2008, 07:20 PM
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Allow me to add another question to my OP:

If you could have any genetic / cybernetic / ect modofication done to you, what would you have done first and foremost?
Wolverine's recuperative ability & pain tolerance.

The claws; well, with today's civil lawsuits as they are... you're just asking for trouble.
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I'd go further. I'd want to be a brain-in-a-tank*, connected to vastly more computational power, which would also become me. Lots of robotic and semi-biological surrogates that I could control via radio.



*With bubbles, for no good reason.
Ugh - not me. I'm too much into visceral experiences.

To never again know the scent of a woman, the touch of her skin...

No thanks!
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Ugh - not me. I'm too much into visceral experiences.

To never again know the scent of a woman, the touch of her skin...

No thanks!
Who said anything about lack of visceral experiences?

Everything sensation you have already occures inside your brain. It is all heavily processed interpretation of whatever nerve signals your sense organs send you. If what SkepticJ describes becomes possible at all, then simulating pretty much any real-life sensory experience should be a snap.
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Who said anything about lack of visceral experiences?

Everything sensation you have already occures inside your brain. It is all heavily processed interpretation of whatever nerve signals your sense organs send you. If what SkepticJ describes becomes possible at all, then simulating pretty much any real-life sensory experience should be a snap.
<Still shuddering>

Personally, I like my current interface with the world.

VR is all fine and dandy, but it would still be a simulation.

I forget the exact line, but remember a quote about true beauty being found not in the perfection, but in the flaw.

As flawed as our fleshy bodies may be, I'll take mine any day over a 'perfect' brain-machine interface.
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