I have a vision of what man is inadvertently attempting to do. Man is on the path to immortality.
Presently man achieves immortality by reproduction. His genetic signature is passed down to his offspring.
Technology will make it possible for men to live indefinitely one day.
I see a future in which every child born will have a microchip implant that will live with him until natural expiration. This chip will have the ability to record and simulate every impulse, every impression, every experience, every thought which has passed through the mind of this individual.
On expiration, the chip will be removed from the body and placed into, say, a titanium body of precise construction which will respond to every impulse from this chip controller.
In effect, Mr.XYZ has been recreated anew in a body with serviceable parts that may actually live forever. So much so if this chip also has the capacity to ‘learn’ and ‘improve’ upon the thought processes of the biological source of its own thought processes.
This vision raises certain fundamental questions: What happens to the emotions and feelings that characterize the human being? And how will issues of population control be handled in such a future?
First of all, I believe that if mankind is to conquer the universe through stellar travel and the like, he must be prepared to mature past his current definition of what is human. He must be ready to accept the fact that man in his current form is primitive, falling far short of what is required to dominate existence as we know it.
I am of the opinion that Almighty God gave us the spirit (mind) and the physique (body) as blueprints or the foundation upon which to build towards immortality.
Machines are far superior to man in their ability towards immortality. But machines do not ‘think’ as we know it.
