Poll: Transhumanism: How Far Would You Take It?

[SonOfVoorhees]

All 7 - though im sure it will cost more money as you work through the numbers. So it will turn into a poor humans vs rich super humans argument. Though only issue would be crime, criminals would have money to improve themselves so would we expect all police officers to undertake this as well or be fired?

 

[jurnag12]

I'd probably be willing to go up to 6, although I would be considerably more comfortable with option 6 than with 4 or 5. There's just something about the steps between "perfect fusion of man and machine" and "ascended beyond the flesh" that weirds me out.

 

[RogueportJack]

Option 4. If that means have the physical capabilities of Raiden or a Dragon Ball Z Android then sign me the fuck up.

 

[BrainWalker]

I'm not a fan of my hideous flesh and it's temporary anyway so I feel like 5 is a pretty good option.

 

[Story]

I went with option 2, because it sounds pretty sweet.
But in all honesty I can't see my self going past 1, I'm pretty conservative about my body. I don't think I'm going to get a tattoo or even a body piecing for instance.

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Who am i

Yeah, that probably how I would react if I choose anything beyond 3.
I mean wtf?

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Between 2 and 3. Minor major augmentation coupled with the touch of genetic tampering. I wouldn't have a problem, say, replacing my legs from the knees down(I have horrible knees that seem to enjoy dislocating) so long as there aren't any side effects and I don't need to take a drug to function. I can tolerate that little bit of pain if getting rid of it would mean I need to take drugs for the rest of my life.

I'd only go that far because I value being at least partially organic. I wouldn't want to be a full-body cyborg. I just wouldn't feel like I'm still me... Also, I quite enjoy eating actual food and not having to go in for oil changes or new batteries that power essentially ALL of me.

 

[Syzygy23]

I pick option 6.

How could anyone NOT want to become Mechathulhu? That's probably the only way I'll ever be able to realize my dream of building a railgun that fires neutron stars...

 

[Angelous Wang]

Voted for 4.

However I would want nano augmentation, not tech augmentation (like Raiden/Adam Jensen).

I would want nanites to remake my body sort of as is but a bit more idealised simply making everything stronger and more durable (if not fully indestructible and ageless). I would keep all body senses and sensations intact apart from high levels of pain and high levels temperature discomforts (low levels still intact, so I can still feel ocean breeze for example but would not feel the absolute zero of space).

Eyes would be replaced with more advanced (superman like) eyes, with an internal HUD to provide me with any useful information (such as self damage information), though the HUD can be turned off.

I'd also have an internal PC linked my brain (thought controlled, use my eyes as the monitor), just for the convenience of that. (it would have a one way input so you can't hack my brain by hacking the PC).

Nanite based self healing/repair systems.

I'd take Adam Jensen's stealth and Icarus landing systems too.

 

[spartan231490]

I put option 4 because I absolutely draw the line at my mind, but in all honesty I doubt I would ever go beyond minor augmentation. I put option 4, in other words, because that's my ethical limit, realistically I see no reason to go beyond 2, I like myself the way I am, more or less.

 

[Adventurer2626]

Option 2 definitely, on an as needed/extremely beneficial basis. I prefer the mentat/Bene Gesserit approach to perfecting the human condition. That being said, I don't some exoskeletal interface like glasses, armour and hearing/sensory aids. I'd go so far as the Adam Jensen route only if I get f*ked up like he did. No limb replacement without injury/illness as a cause.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Posthuman.

Spoiler: Because that could explain this guy...

FOUND YOU

 

[synobal]

Posthuman.

Spoiler: Because that could explain this guy...

FOUND YOU

Woot more people for the Post Human Club. *highfive*

 

[SoranMBane]

However far it would take for me to be nearly immortal. So, anywhere from major genetic modification, to full-body conversion, to Altered Carbon-style brain uploading. Whatever is required to keep my mind and personality intact in some form for at least a few hundred years.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Posthuman.

Spoiler: Because that could explain this guy...

FOUND YOU

Woot more people for the Post Human Club. *highfive*

*teleports synobal... somewhere else... never to be seen again*

*stares blankly, eyelessly at the next victim*

*just stands there... menacingly*

 

[Drake Barrow]

I went with Option 7 - I'm good with a lot of things, provided my mind/self stay intact. A few minor gene enhancements? Alright, cool! My soul uploaded into a Vorlon-style arrangement of 'mutable energy/noncorporeal form bound to an extradimensional matrix and requiring an encounter suit to interact with the physical world'? I could handle that. Just so long as I'm still myself at the core. I would understand that a new state of existence would cause change in perspective, but if I completely forget who I was, or only a copy of myself exists as opposed to the original, then forget it.

 

[Marik2]

Isn't option 2 technically what we do now?

Technology has enhanced the standard of living and has made us better with diseases.

 

[josak]

I picked option 5, frankly I think we are living on he cusp of at least 4 being viable, the problem I have is the one well raised in Deus Ex what happens to those who cannot afford augmentation? So I would be in favor of a plan that makes augmentations covered by taxation so long as they serve a useful function.

This serves the common good and the individual.

 

[Moloch Sacrifice]

I voted 6, as it just beats out 5 in a very close contest. Either way, I personally regard the idea of hanging onto a human body as unnecessary sentimentality, especially if the rewards for discarding it are so great. I also have some rather long term plans for my consciousness (should technology allow it), so all my decisions on this are considered with the very long term in mind.

The benefit of 5 is that grants me much of what I'm after; longevity, improved mental capacity, and physical versatility. However, the main reason it can compete with 6 is that whilst extremely transhuman, I am still of a similar kind of consciousness as I am now. that means I can still view the universe with awe, be excited by the mystery of exploring it, and perceive it all from a personal level.

However, to become 6 represents something altogether entirely different; to become a mind so different from my current self, to be able to understand concepts far beyond what the human mind is capable of, and to rise above the petty, arbitrary mechanisms that govern a human-like's life is something I would gladly sacrifice my humanity for. Whilst being human or human-like offers an irreplicable experience, I view it in an entirely pragmatic manner; it certainly is not a cornerstone to my beliefs, or sense of identity.

 

[Sarasena]

I would go all-out on the genetic/biological and nanotech enhancements. Rewrite my genetic code, fill me with nanites that repair all damage, give me the ability to digest cellulose and change my skin color like a chameleon, give me new color cones in my eyeballs, transform my muscles into organic carbon nanotubes, whatever, I'm down with all of it. Splice my genes with the best the plant and animal kingdoms have to offer, please.

But I wouldn't stick actual metal parts in myself, not unless I really, really had to. The thought of it really icks me out.

Also, I am PROFOUNDLY skeptical of the idea that our perspective consciousness would somehow carry over if we copied our brain data into a computer; seems no different than creating a brain replica, and surely that wouldn't carry our consciousness over either.

 

[Celtois]

I picked option 5, because it seems to me that by the time your advance to option 6 you have basically destroyed yourself, in so far as your mind it no longer comprehensible.

However I think if I was face with the option right now, to undergo any of these procedures at no cost I would probably stick with minor physical and mental augmentations, or no changes at all. I would be willing to consider further augmentations really only if I felt they were necessary for my survival.