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Body Hacking? - Informational Talk

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  • 26-08-2008 10:36pm
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    Will
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    This was posted about a year ago on modblog, but never knew it hit youtube.

    It's a talk by Quinn Norton, an hour long, very interesting if you have an hour to spare. It's a bit dated now amazingly since microdermals have hit.

    I'm just after watching it again, interesting stuff. The dubbing is a bit off but it isn't really an issue.

    What counts as human?
    Are we robots?
    What is socially acceptable and why?
    How do you define what is beneficial?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voA7Uz7uABE


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    Crumble Froo
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    will check this out sometime next week wehn i have the hour...


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    Cianos
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    I think she more skimmed over a lot of issues rather than gave a thorough insight in to a narrower range of issues.

    She does bring up some interesting questions though.

    The audience members at the end had valid points imo...that the question of "What is human?" is in many ways a misguided question. The state of being human is changing all the time, the pace of which is always getting faster. So according to this, we are no longer human as would be defined 200 years ago, and 'humans' 200 years from now will no longer be human from the point of view of our contemporary definition.


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