From drivable bionic animals to machines made from muscle, biohybrid robots are on their way to a variety of uses.
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This is the concept behind mind uploading – the idea that we may one day be able to transition a person from their biological body to a synthetic hardware. The idea originated in an intellectual movement called transhumanism and has several key advocates including computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, philosopher Nick Bostrom and neuroscientist Randal Koene.
The transhumanists’ central hope is to transcend the human condition through scientific and technological progress. They believe mind uploading may allow us to live as long as we want (but not necessarily forever). It might even let us improve ourselves, such as by having simulated brains that run faster and more efficiently than biological ones. It’s a techno-optimist’s dream for the future. But does it have any substance?
The feasibility of mind uploading rests on three core assumptions.
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At the most recent H+ Academy discussion and debate on the topic of “anti-transhumanist” writings (video below), several transhumanists suggested that we reclaim “transhumanism” from the obfuscations and misrepresentations of the original meaning of transhumanism as a philosophy and worldview.
How did this happen? Over the years, there have been many “opinions” about what transhumanism is or isn’t. These opinions could be personal interpretations of the philosophy, some of which may or may not be true. While diversity is welcome and new ideas are highly valued, the philosophy of transhumanism does have principles that form the core of its meaning. With a lot of leeway for opinion, interpretations can go in directions that are counter to transhumanism. Some of the more extreme opinions have caused a flood of anti-transhumanist bias and even hate. This is not what we want.
What can we do? We need to make it very clear what transhumanism is and is not. And we need to state this publicly and make it available to everyone.
This video explores the future of the world from 2030 to 10,000 A.D. and beyond…Watch this next video about the Technological Singularity: https://youtu.be/yHEnKwSUzAE.
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12:40 2050
39:11 2060
49:57 2070
01:04:58 2080
01:16:39 2090
01:28:38 2100
01:49:03 2200
02:05:48 2300
02:20:31 3000
02:28:18 10,000 A.D.
02:35:29 1 Million Years.
02:43:16 1 Billion Years.
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• https://www.futuretimeline.net.
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Ray Kurzweil): https://amzn.to/3ftOhXI
• The Future of Humanity (Michio Kaku): https://amzn.to/3Gz8ffA
• AI 2041: 10 Visions of Our Future (Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan): https://amzn.to/3bxWat6
• Tim Ferriss Podcast [Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs (542)]: https://tim.blog/2021/10/28/chris-dixon-naval-ravikant/
• https://2050.earth/
• https://research.aimultiple.com/artificial-general-intellige…ty-timing/
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communications/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/08/14/quantum-co…3acd9f3b4c.
• https://cointelegraph.com/news/tales-from-2050-a-look-into-a-world-built-on-nfts.
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She gets a new cybernetic arm.
Watch this teen‘s wholesome reaction to getting her very first bionic arm.
During the company’s second quarter earnings call in July, Musk had said that combining the two could provide a cyber body that is incredibly capable.
Listen now (66 mins) | If you would like to support this podcast, click here. Max More is a philosopher, futurist, and former CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. He is currently Director of Communications at Biostasis Technologies. Max wrote the first definition of “Transhumanism” in its modern sense.
This video explores what life would be like if we became a Type I Civilization. Watch this next video about the Technological Singularity: https://youtu.be/yHEnKwSUzAE.
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SOURCES:
• https://www.futuretimeline.net.
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Ray Kurzweil): https://amzn.to/3ftOhXI
• The Future of Humanity (Michio Kaku): https://amzn.to/3Gz8ffA
SOURCES:
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Max Tegmark): https://amzn.to/3xrU351
• The Future of Humanity (Michio Kaku): https://amzn.to/3Gz8ffA
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Ray Kurzweil): https://amzn.to/3ftOhXI
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Link :- Watch a video of Karin using her new bionic hand: https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/bionic-hand-phantom-limb
A new way of merging the body with a bionic hand provided a woman with more control over her prosthetic and less phantom limb pain.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines the use of Softbotics to mimic the movements of the ancient marine organism, pleurocystitid, which is estimated to have existed approximately 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first marine invertebrates to control their movements with a muscular stem. This study was led by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and holds the potential to help scientists use a new field known as Paleobionics to better understand the evolutionary history of extinct organisms with paleontological evidence.
Image of a Pleurocystitid fossil (inset) and the pleurocystitid robot replica developed for the study. (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering)
“Softbotics is another approach to inform science using soft materials to construct flexible robot limbs and appendages,” said Dr. Carmel Majidi, who is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and lead author of the study. “Many fundamental principles of biology and nature can only fully be explained if we look back at the evolutionary timeline of how animals evolved. We are building robot analogues to study how locomotion has changed.”