4737 posts 2/19/2008 9:31 am
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3/3/2008 3:53 pm
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Sex After Death
I hope you haven’t dropped by thinking warm’s gone necro!
"OMG! What has he got
For a girlfriend?
Do I smell rot?”
To which he said
“Certainly not!
She is so sexy.
Makes me laugh!
But granted,
Yes, she needs a bath!
I know her skin tone’s
Wan and pale,
And she looks,
Well, rather frail……"
But for a while now I’ve had a thought experiment which goes something like this….
Shall I pull down the switch Doktor Frankenvarm?
No Igor! Not this time! It’s a thought experiment!
Ah master, you want the whirly black and white spiral hypnotron….
That won’t be necessary Igor.
(Igor shuffles off stage left. His eyes are slightly wobbly in their orbits because he was rather overzealous in starting up the hypnotron. Naughty Igor! Bad hunchback! Go to your tower!)
Sorry, the thought experiment.
There has for time immemorial been a desire for immortality. This is probably linked to the fact that on the whole, and with the riders that you are non-suicidal and haven’t been persuaded by a loony cleric that self-detonation is the best way of bringing about political change since democracy, life is a better deal than death. Certainly a desire for life is seen to be a rational outlook on things and who can be blamed for wanting more? Immortality lies at the end of the road of life enhancement, somewhere out there …….. and probably over the third rainbow on the right.
Right?
So far, so good.
Then there’s the relationship between our nervous system and electricity. Alessandro Volta’s demonstrations with frog’s legs and a battery actually did inspire Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.
Some say that a row of twelve wired frog’s legs inspired irish dancing…..
“To be sure Patrick, to be sure. I’ve got all these frogs’ legs, but the shops won’t be stocking batteries for another century or so.”
“Never mind, Sean ‒ we’ll do the dancin’ ourselves.”
And so it was Riverdance was born.
In the 1950s electric probes inserted into the brain during surgery under local anaesthetic induced all sorts of basic responses ‒ feeling thirsty, horny, even simple emotions like anger. Our beings were no longer beyond interference from outside. Nowadays deep brain implants are used to control conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson’s Disease, and there are the possible side effects of apathy, hallucinations, compulsive gambling, hypersexuality, cognitive dysfunction, and depression.
Include a microcomputer in the brain and we become part human and part machine.
So it is feasible that as the brain degenerates its functions can be delegated to intelligent machinery until there is just the machinery left supporting our floating consciousness. We could cheat death. We could emulate human emotions and sensations in our new shell, that would have the potential to live indefinitely.
Perhaps with the sophistication of nanotechnology the new undead would be indistinguishable from the biologically living. Perhaps some would end up chatting each other up over a drink or two in a local bar……
Maybe more....
So tell me, if this was the most feasible alternative to the oblivion of death, would you take it?
Or is there, knowing those moments when our star burns brightest, is there something rather special about our mortality? |
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15173 posts 2/25/2008 5:05 am |
Not sure I would take it..if it was offered..but something to think about..I think my kids would control me so I would go clean their homes..
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12250 posts 2/23/2008 7:11 pm |
I don't want to admit that I found this disgusting but still funny.  
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13513 posts 2/21/2008 12:32 pm |
all I know is that we are only here for a little while...
just stopping by to read you and send you a hug from across
the pond {=}
Just a little food for thought.............
If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you... {=}
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32404 posts 2/20/2008 2:02 pm |
snorked at river dance
but yes, there is somethign about knowing that our love is finite that puts an edge to it, no?
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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