Monday, February 18, 2013

Meat!



Can the human body be a helpful determinate for what is human v. what is not human? Certainly. If nothing else, even when considering philosophies like “Transhumanism” - the idea could be that the “meat” stage is nothing more than the initial stage of human development. While it is currently practical for us to consider human beings in terms of “meat”, humans have found ways to augment themselves to make us “more then meat”, as one might say/consider. The brain, moreover, the type of brain and what it is capable of, being an absolutely crucial determinant to the species, is made entirely of meat.
Even in the future, with augmentation, it may very well be the function of the device and not the makeup of the device itself which provides for that gap. Is being human a way of feeling?
To make this blog entry short, because I am already bored of the topic, I can definitely conclude that the physical makeup is a good starting form factor for what is a human. But it certainly does not appear to be the final form.

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