Monday, December 4, 2023

Man still cannot fly...biologically

What if we genetically modified a human with eagle genes? Easy to do, just splice them in. But would it result in a human with wings of their own, and that could fly? Theoretically possible? But where is the evidence that genetic modifications of anything has produced "better"?

OK, but what about the combination of biology and technology? What if we inserted technology genes into a human? Wait, technology does not have genres.  Or human genes into technology? Where would we put them.

So what if we wired a circuit board into a spinal cord? The Terminator!

But the singularity does not require biology

To this point all growth has been biological. To ascribe motive to technology requires it to be at least partially biological:

Biology continues to be greatly underappreciated. But why should we appreciate it? It's all over the place, everywhere we look. As common as grass.

But we didn't invent biology, we invented technology. And so the "invented here" bias controls the narrative.

Humans have been mythologizing in various ways since writing. This is simply another one of those. Mythology would not capture the imagination if it were not myth.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein

If everything is a miracle, why do we even need myth?

Good question.

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