Those genealogy DNA test just leave more info about u for gov to steal

[El Kabong]

How would that work for people who believe in a soul? Surely there can only be one of the real you if you believe that?

Plenty of vain rich people who would clone themselves already i am sure and I am pretty sure they have started cloning pets. Do you believe animals have souls?

Nobody can define or quantify what makes up a soul. We'd get way out in the weeds hypothesizing about if a clone of me would have my soul (I reckon not) or one of it's own but that is not necessarily my concern.

They HAVE indeed started cloning pets, I'd never clone a pet either. When people get seemingly unlimited lives then life loses what makes it precious which is that it is finite.


Imagine if you will, there was genetic manipulation and the wealthy got all the cures for diseases and so on or they could clone themselves and the poor were left to rot in the gutters or starved or wiped out with a disease specifically targeted to weaknesses in their DNA.....I know eugenics happened and in my state there were forced sterilizations for certain people up until the 1970's....think big government wouldn't run roughshod over the peons? Think again! They do it whenever they are able to. Give an inch to a politician and they'll see themselves as a ruler.

[Spicoli]

Well we are basically one big walking bag of chemicals waiting to leave a damp spot. It is surprising thought that there was a moment when someone said..sure, what the hell.. I'll stuff these swab sticks in my mouth and put them in the mail. What about hair follicles are they carrying DNA?

[walrus]

How would that work for people who believe in a soul? Surely there can only be one of the real you if you believe that?

Plenty of vain rich people who would clone themselves already i am sure and I am pretty sure they have started cloning pets. Do you believe animals have souls?

Nobody can define or quantify what makes up a soul. We'd get way out in the weeds hypothesizing about if a clone of me would have my soul (I reckon not) or one of it's own but that is not necessarily my concern.

They HAVE indeed started cloning pets, I'd never clone a pet either. When people get seemingly unlimited lives then life loses what makes it precious which is that it is finite.


Imagine if you will, there was genetic manipulation and the wealthy got all the cures for diseases and so on or they could clone themselves and the poor were left to rot in the gutters or starved or wiped out with a disease specifically targeted to weaknesses in their DNA.....I know eugenics happened and in my state there were forced sterilizations for certain people up until the 1970's....think big government wouldn't run roughshod over the peons? Think again! They do it whenever they are able to. Give an inch to a politician and they'll see themselves as a ruler.

One of the founders of Facebook who is probably 30 had a speaking engagement where he said billionaires will be the immortal. It was cryptic but he seemed to be saying it literally. He talked about the medical care billionaires can access versus we reg folk. It would certainly change our current plutocracy. Damn I wish I could remember his name. They played the video on FOX, I’ll see if I can remember and dig up the vid

[Master]

The human body degrades so it can last 100 years but the brain/soul needs to be transferred into another host body which could be an ageless shell/robot.

You would need to preserve the brain and keep it healthy and away from diseases like dementia.

[El Kabong]

The human body degrades so it can last 100 years but the brain/soul needs to be transferred into another host body which could be an ageless shell/robot.

You would need to preserve the brain and keep it healthy and away from diseases like dementia.

The brain naturally ends up with Parkinson's as the good fats in your brain wear out and the neurons are left short circuiting like a power tool with the insulation worn off the cord.

Transferring some sort of synaptic map to a brand new brain would be a necessity for an individual to continue on as the same exact person with just a new body.

My worries remain, but as with colonization I'm sure SOME good will come of this endeavor but for who and at what cost?

[Beanz]

I realised earlier that DNA allows for all the things we used to use fiction and religion to describe. Re-Incarnation and time travel are there within people's genes passed on to their offspring. I think they will find that both desires and aptitudes, personality traits etc are there too along with the physiological instructions. The supposedly airy fairy hippy idea that we are all one is indeed true as is the fact that we are also actually the living embodiment of our individual ancestors. Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandaddy Joe is in many senses walking around the planet on your feet and seeing out thru your eyes, thousands of years after he died. He therefore has the potential to be in Heaven and Hell right here on little old insignificant earth. For some heaven is a bowl of hot food and for others Hell is not being able to give that to their own kids.

[Master]

That would be great if we could time travel back through our ancestors and see what they experienced.

(This is the plot to Assassins Creed)

[walrus]

This conversation is getting deep, I'm gonna change the pressure relief valve on my hot water heater today, I need to come back to reality. Ps I've never changed one of these before but it looks straight forward I'm hoping I don't make an error as these things can become bombs if not properly vented, ok back to DNA maybe I'll start a home improvements thread

[El Kabong]

Cloning horror: Human clone fears as Euro scientists CREATE LIFE from ‘nothing’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...search-cloning
SCIENTISTS have created a living embryo in a laboratory without using either egg or sperm in ground-breaking but hugely controversial experiments.



Lovely, a scifi horror movie would NEVER start out like this