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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by AnthraAndromda
No. Mass is finite. Finite within an infinite space.
I will let none other than Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy explain the matter to you.
Sorry, you're wrong.
The fact is the chances of finding humanoids are low because we are the most recent major evolution on Earth, and every one of the some 100 million before us had just as much a chance to becoming as smart as us.
That means that long before the first wee humanoid got into space, hundreds of millions of non humanoids would already be there.
Upright? Birds can make spears without any paws. What does that say about us?
The human brain is the most embarrassing product to come about from evolution. You only need look at the Earth to know that. Removal of key useless elements would create a smaller, more compact, faster processing unit.
Humanity is at the top of the food chain because of one tiny reason. We advance exponentially. You don't need intelligence for that. A crow brain with this ability would be better than us. That is why the other half dozen hominids with the same exact brain but without behavioral modernity, all went extinct.
So much for a big brain. All it does is ensure 4/5 hominids go extinct.
Not to mention that's only useful on this world.
Those other worlds? Gravity is different, atmosphere is different. Not likely going to find humans evolve there.
Humanity is everything. Exploration and isolation. But if given to the chance to not go in person over a probe, history shows probe will go first.
I don't have to play God. In a yes no question, 50% will say yes and 50% will say no. also, fyi, the ones that say yes to implants and engineering will become stronger and better than the ones that say no, making them more common.
Unlike the speed of light or the mass of the electron, human brain power is not an eternally fixed constant. Brains can be enhanced. And, in principle, machines can be made to process information as efficiently as--or more efficiently than--biological nervous systems.
Humans advance primarily because of their intelligence. When was the last time a Crow was involved in the design of the latest Intel CPU? Oh, forgot, silly me ... never! Why? because Crows have not the intelligence to invent tool beyond the most primative. When was the last time you saw a crow carrying a tool kit?
Yes the gravity is different on some, the atmosphere also. But, that makes little difference Your ideas that the human brain is only useful on Earth is wholly speculative, and, if you knew anything about ETs then you would realize the utter folly of your statements.
Actually, those who say yes to implants do not become stronger, and if anything become weaker. They loose little bits of their humanity, until they are nothing more than a chunk of technology destined to break.
"The human brain contains about 50 billion to 200 billion neurons (nobody knows how many for sure), each of which interfaces with 1,000 to 100,000 other neurons through 100 trillion (10 14) to 10 quadrillion (10 16) synaptic junctions. Each synapse possesses a variable firing threshold which is reduced as the neuron is repeatedly activated. If we assume that the firing threshold at each synapse can assume 256 distinguishable levels, and if we suppose that there are 20,000 shared synapses per neuron (10,000 per neuron), then the total information storage capacity of the synapses in the cortex would be of the order of 500 to 1,000 terabytes. (Of course, if the brain's storage of information takes place at a molecular level, then I would be afraid to hazard a guess regarding how many bytes can be stored in the brain. One estimate has placed it at about 3.6 X 10 19 bytes.)"
The whole idea of using technology and implants to "fix" someone only serves to weaken the Human species, continued use of such practices would only serve to make Humans like the "Borg" of Star Trek, and destined to extinction at the hands of some species who don't subscribe to the over use of inplants.
So sorry, but you really have failed to learn these matters. The human brain is not that impressive, and it breaks, just like all bodies and flesh do. Machine lasts longer.
And in fact, because you do not know these facts, it begs to question how a 60 million year old civilization missed so much.
"why does not this infant species see what is there in front of them, why do they not recognize what is obvious?"
I really have to wonder. Why would an alien species not do this most logical thing. Change what they have with machine to be better.
You can look human 100% and still have machine better your life. Perhaps the most greatest example of this is a pacemaker. A simple machine to replace what biology has failed.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by AnthraAndromda
I am a stoic Christian. So forgive me, but I do see the need to remove emotions that are bad and useless and cause division and destruction. I have already eliminated fear, and rarely feel anger other then with my family. Happiness is mostly the feeling.
As to the soul, why can a machine not have a soul?
At the end of the day, you really have to ponder it.
"Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands."
I have seen men waste their entire lives meditating like they were going to ascend or something. I have seen other men driven to atheism because they simply stopped caring. I am giving you the best advice in saying mysticism and magic and all that hollabajee is nonsense. Humans are sacks of flesh with a a few bits of electricity to run them. They live, they breed, they die. Life has no grand mystery or point to it. There is no "what's the answer to life the universe and everything. The universe is death. All things die, and all people know everything dies. You will die. If you are an alien, your empire will die. Humanity will be extinct in a century or two. All things die and are forgot.
So while you can do all the things you do and have every right to do them in any belief system you chose, I think you should ask this one question. If I am on the right path and have been doing this for 40 years, why is this kid probably less than a third of my age already doing it and been through all this thought that I have had.
I think you should ponder that one. Chi, lucid dreaming, prayer, meditation, magic. Whatever you wish to call it. I've tried it and gotten as far as people who claim to been doing this for 40 years. So either I am some crazy biological freak or it just doesn't pay to waste your life away doing something that does nothing for you in the end. That said I believe in prayer, just not that it is observable.
In my short life I have been involved in projects that has changed the face of the world, and affected virtually every Human living in these times. You will never know what that is like, for you are not capable of such things, nor will you be.
Now yes, I think this is done here. Because it is far far far far off topic. But you asked, I answered. And to return back to the post, I still can't see you as alien when I can do what you do and not really see anything.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by AnthraAndromda
At the end of the day, I am advanced as you and probably under third your age. Thus what I become in my life will be more than even a supposed alien.
I don't believe you on what you say in terms of team based work and everything because I see no records and no proof. You can claim, but you have no proof.
To bring it back on topic it goes into much of what you claimed. Your used of flawed population tests as proof that you are not from a European population.
Even though a few generations of interbreeding between populations would show just as much your own. Your proof is basically your own word and your request to believe in you. I cannot. I am fact based. That which has not proof from personal experience nor hard data simply is not valid for me.
You use all that you can to discredit me without knowledge nor proof of the matter. You call me insane. When you have no proof to this claim, you call me young.
When you have no proof that this makes me wrong, you call me hypocrite to my faith. When revealed that that faith is not what you think, you move onto something else. You shift your accusations in full circle and move along that circle. You are running out of straws to draw and to put it simply, you derail all conversations, and then derail that derailment.
Your dna proof does not show anything but interbreeding between groups. Your dna other than that is pure human.
Your proof is typed data without hard proof. Then you call it evidence, not proof. Then when your evidence is shown to be faulty, you claim it is not but say nothing as to why. You rely too heavily on your own words and too little on why you are right or the validity of your proof.
Please do not take this as anger nor insult. Always I have done nothing but critique. And just as the teacher tells the student why and how he is wrong and the student simply says he is right without backing these words as to how or why, you too are doing the same thing. Is there any claim you have made, and statement, then can be backed with a why? A how come?