Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!kyoto From: kyoto@pawl.rpi.edu (Jesse N. Schell) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Metal Brains Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 03:58:05 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: pawl8.pawl.rpi.edu GE is currently doing research concerning connecting a computer interface to your head. It really seems that the mechanization of the human brain is going to be the way of the future. Immortality may indeed become possible, and the altered humans will be a truly different creature than anything that has come before. This development would drastically change our conceptions of good and evil, as well as any considerations of the importance of the individual. Many people are trying to ignore the fact that this may become a reality, perhaps within our lifetimes. All we know will have to be redefined, even what it means to be alive. Personally, I am looking forward to these changes, as it will force humanity as we know it to confront the cold light of reality, and personal views of what might or might not be true will have far less importance. I realize I probably sound like a nut, but what do others think?