wwkirk
Paranormal Adept
Here is a serious discussion of this question.
http://api.ning.com/files/he7C0OVhm...WtS3djvTgA8DhmtDNX387fSLaQ9OPZR/1104.4462.pdf
http://api.ning.com/files/he7C0OVhm...WtS3djvTgA8DhmtDNX387fSLaQ9OPZR/1104.4462.pdf
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So then you never want us to meet any other species, or only less advanced ones?
Its always possible that some advanced aliens (probably not all) follow some version of the prime Directive.
Consider, though, about impact to organized religion, the military-industrial complex, and the oil industry. There would be huge ramifications that need to be understood.
http://www.helium.com/items/2029699-mind-uploading-immortalityAccording to Ian Pearson, a British futurist, death will be a thing of the past by 2050.
Pearson is one of many futurists, cybernetic experts and artificial intelligence researchers whose thoughts are converging on the same basic idea: Why not upload everything that's in the brain—everything that makes a person who they are—into a computer and then download it again into a new body? Doing such a thing would make the individual theoretically immortal.
"I think it very likely -in fact inevitable-that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of intelligence in the universe."
Paul Davies -acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University."
Consider, though, about impact to organized religion, the military-industrial complex, and the oil industry. There would be huge ramifications that need to be understood.
Consider, though, about impact to organized religion, the military-industrial complex, and the oil industry. There would be huge ramifications that need to be understood.
The greatest danger humanity could possibly face is being discovered by something else with religious zeal and a need to proselytize or carryout cleansingfor their deities. Certainly the major religions of love, peace, and light here on this planet have shown us the incredible dangers of having their emissaries show up on your shores.