When it comes to the idea of singularity there is one big question that people worry about is “By beating death, will we have lost our essential humanity?” (Kurzweil 4). who is to draw the line on when we lose are essential humanity? That is a point that can be arugd around and around but it all ways come to the same thing it will always come back to the person that it concerns to deiced that. For one can say that hunting and fighting is a lose of humanity. Where someone else can say that as long as you are intending on eating and using all you can from the animal and not just out there for the sport of it and that’s all, is not losing your humanity. But what if we are able to live for ever by being “able to transfer our minds to sturdier vessels such as computers and robots.”(kurzweil 4). would we still still count as human? We just defied the rules of evolution and natural selection. The old die to make room for the new. The new grow old and then they to will die and the new will replace them. It is a contentious cycle that helps keep the world from running out of food and living space. What if every one lived few hundred years because they take a couple hundred pills a day where would we put every one? That is what we have to think about. If computer take over what would happen to the human population will they keep us around for an energy source like they did in the Matrix? Or will they think of them selves as a highly superior being to us, and send use either under ground or just kill us of? These are all things we will have to worry about because science unpredictable, and what is unpredictable is dangerous.
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