Well at least you have your head on straight here.
I see a lot of people in denial about the science, and frankly I'm sick of it. The sheer state of these "treatments" is appalling.
AAANNND youve gone off the deep end again. Morphological freedom is just the freedom to fuck up your body as you see fit. It doesnt mean LITERAL MORPHING. Did you even read the article you linked?
Butchery is the closest you'll ever get. You cant turn a XY chromosome into a XX chromosome and magically become a WHAMEN.
Genetic expression in adults is basically fixed, yes. If you CRISPR yourself or use SiRNAs to modify your genetics or protein expression, then you have to wait until new cells populate before you start seeing any change. Different cell lines reproduce at different rates. With some of them, you won't ever see any change. That's why genetic modification is better performed
in utero, before the cells have actually populated. Of course, that's its own entire can of worms from an ethical standpoint. Someone might try and make 200 IQ super-babies, and then we have Khan in all his bare-chested Ricardo Montalban glory, and all that.
If you want to radically change your body, you basically have to grow a whole new body from scratch. The process that I am imagining involves the creation of a GITS-like cyberbrain, essentially. First, cyborgify the brain to the point where it can survive outside the body (to whatever extent necessary, including the creation of a substrate-independent mind or SIM), and then create a brainless vat-grown clone of the subject with whatever alterations they desire, and then stick the cyberbrain inside it. Other possibilities include "bio-droning", having one's mind held in a secure location and then remotely piloting a custom body elsewhere. Really helps deal with pesky risks to one's physical form, however, there is the problem of bandwidth. The human visual and sensorimotor cortices produce a huge fuck-ton of data. Transmitting it wirelessly, two-way, without lag, may not be feasible.
None of this stuff is even remotely possible with current technology, of course. I don't know if it will even be possible by the 2200s.
As for cultureverse, bud, you'll never see it. The best AI are at rat level intelligence, and MIGHT hit dog level by 2050. Getting to human level, barring some massive leap in computational power, will take millennia. Getting to the level of cultureverse novels is physically impossible, especially with current physical limitations.
There have been some rather interesting breakthroughs in computational power, as of late, as well as the creation of dedicated neuromorphic chips with some very impressive capabilities. DARPA's SyNAPSE project apparently hit cat-brain-level back in 2011, using a Blue Gene supercomputer.
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The new work they're trying to do involves the use of memristors to try and simulate the way human memory works:
Basically, what they're trying to do with this tech is simulate a brain. And if you can simulate a brain, and get that simulation of a brain to talk back and forth with a real brain (via something like a neural lace), it may be possible to significantly expand the capacity of a brain by creating what's called an exocortex.
The tech to do
that, to some small extent, is not 150 years away. It's less than 50 years away, if we can just keep civilization from collapsing in the meantime.
GPT-2 is very impressive at language modeling tasks, and it can very impressively feign intelligence (as in AI Dungeon), but it's not intelligent. Not even remotely. It would take way, way more processing power if that were the case.
Can you imagine how much it actually sucks to be a Jehovah's Witness?
You're told, from a young age, you don't have to
be anything. You don't have to
achieve anything. There is no time limit. So long as you
believe, you have forever. You're immortal. So, you can live your life as an ignorant little janitor in a broom closet, and once God's kingdom comes to fruition, you can be everything you ever wanted to be.
The difference with transhumanism is that there is some modicum of actual science to what they're saying, rather than make-believe and wishful thinking.
No, the idea you are human is basic biology. You should accept yourself for who you are because chasing the dragon to make yourself into some autistic image never ends well. That type of action is called body dysphoria, and its never enough, if you could tinker with your body you will never be happy with the results. See also every artist that tries to improve a previous creation.
The inability to relate to your physical body is not an indication we need to modify your body, its a sign of severe mental illness.
Someone shouldn't
need to have body dysphoria to want to radically modify themselves. People get tattoos and piercings and all kinds of stuff, and they've done so for millennia.
Why should the body be immutable? What is the argument against using one's body as a canvas?
At 104F you start to see permanent brain damage, at 107 you see mass death of neurons in the brain as well as permanent organ damage. This explains a LOT about your inability to process, well, any counterargument given to you and your not even surface level understanding of statistics, philosophy, and humanity in general.
Happened when I was 15. My mom packed ice around my head, but I was practically seeing shit and wigging out, thinking I was going to die. I probably
am a little brain-damaged from that, to be honest. I have found ways to cope and work around it.
Maybe someday, I'll have that brain prosthesis I always wanted.
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