Are We All Going To Be Disembodied Heads Some Day?

Actually this very topic was addressed in Star Trek: TOS once. When a intelligent race becomes very technologically advanced, do they continue to exist as disembodied brains?

This would have several advantages to having bodies. Less organs would mean less could go wrong. And I guess if you wanted to see, hear and interact with other people, you would basically do it on a kind of virtual plane.

Of course a race would have to be exceptionally advanced to pull off such a feat. But it still might happen some day, if it hasn't already happened on some alien world.

What do the rest of you think ?

 

What if women are an alien race of brain shaped creatures that are evil who embodied beautiful bodies in order to torture men.

 

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So... are ugly women the only real human females?

 

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In The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan, the author confronts the possibility of us creating disembodied AI's that resemble some of the ideas mentioned in your op, such as the notion of the AI's being embodied in virtual planes and thus having communities and the ability to proliferate self-learning, efficiency, etc.

 

Not without my penis!!!!

 

Nah. I haven't even agreed to donate my organs. No one is getting my head..

 

ill just be a pile ashes and small pieces of bone

dont really care what advances the future brings because i wont be here to care

 

That's the spirit. Some folks are twice your age before they realise that.

 

if we don't become extinct as a species in the next few decades, we will likely, at some point, soon i hope, be able to creatively re-engineer, our entire individual personal genehome.

another possibility of course, is that only the mutated by environment, will survive the coming ecopocalypse, thus giving birth to a new sapience, born of our genetic history as a species, but no longer humanity as we know it.

our bodies exist to carry our brains around. our brains exist to carry our minds around. and our minds, well the physical may not be the end of it either.

(not being HERE to care, is no guarantee of not being SOME where. indeed, of the infinite diversity of possibilities, only a tiny handful have ever crossed the minds of most humans.
what ever world you are next born on, you have a responsibility, as long as you live there, here or anywhere in any way, for your influence on the conditions everyone there must face and experience,
by which i mean, defacto responsibility, as a consequence, of the influence, no one, can avoid having.)