If we are able to enhance
and/or engineer ourselves and/or our progeny what is the goal? To be stronger,
bigger, smaller, smarter, faster? Do we want to live forever? Or is it to be
happier, universally compassionate, more intuitive or insightful? Can these
attributes be engineered? Will we find them on another planet?
We need to find remedies
for our weaknesses. People who are sick or injured need to be cured or at least
comforted. But I can't see that the end all and be all of human
existence has anything to do with our physical existence beyond our physical
comforts.
Broadly,
the ultimate goal of human existence is happiness and that can't be genetically
engineered or manufactured through implanted enhancements. I would like to have
TiVo eyes as much as the next person. It would be a great toy but it is not the
answer for my need to be happy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/humans-in-1000-years-2015-10
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