Humans Merging with Machines

Introduction:

Humans merging with machines are a theory people have been thinking about for years. Singularity creator, Kurzweil, came up with the idea of humans becoming smart as a machine. and being able to fight off any type of disease.” Our brains are a million times slower than electronics," Kurzweil said. "We will increasingly become software entities if you go out enough decades" (Farrar 2008). Ever since technology increased at a high peak, the possibility of humans merging with machines is becoming even more realistic and scientists are getting ready for that theory to revolve but there is still a lot of questions like: When is it going to happen? How will it affect the natural human life?

Details:

The big question is when is this entire thing going to take place? That is hard to determine especially since it is a new idea that would be presented amongst human and most people won’t accept it. Regardless if it’ll make them live longer, cure them of any diseases, and have a brain like Google. That’ll take away the point of existing as a human and instead of living like a human; we would be living in a mind and body of a robot.

There is a lot of predictions based on how technology will affect the human mind and most importantly when is it going to happen. Kurzweil cannot predict the future. “He feels by 2020 we'll have computers that are powerful enough to simulate the human brain but we won't be finished with the reverse engineering of the brain until about the year 2029” (Kaku 2011). At the rate technology is going will have a greater enhancement than the human brain and will it be able to control it?

Humans won’t have organs; they most likely will be replaced by machine that will keep it going at a specific rate. “By the 2030s, Kurzweil said, humans will become more non-biological than biological capable of uploading our minds onto the Internet, living in various virtual worlds and even avoiding aging and evading death” (Farrar 2008). The life of a human being will be run by the internet and all of our data will be uploaded on it. This will be the new way human interact on first instinct while meeting new people and saving memories.

The human mind being run by a machine will be so much better and smarter than natural knowledge. “In the 2040s, Kurzweil predicts that non-biological intelligence will be billions of times better than the biological intelligence humans have today, possibly rendering our present brains obsolete” (Farrar 2008). The brain we currently have will pretty much be useless once a chip gets implanted inside of it to make the human mind have equivalent amount of knowledge as the internet.

Kurzweil admits that there's a risk associated with the concept of machines meging with humans Singularity, that's impossible to get away from. “We don't know what a highly advanced artificial intelligence, finding itself a newly created inhabitant of the planet Earth, would choose to do” (Grossman 2011). We would not know the cause and effects of bringing robots for an example to the world in the long run because we do not know how they will react. They do not have the natural process of the human mind so it could retaliate against us.

Conclusion:

As interesting as the concept of Singularity sounds, there is a major risk in merging humans with machines. Such as if human’s behavior is impaired in a negative way the causes behavior to be out of control. If God wanted us to be merged with machines and act as a robot, he would’ve created us without a free will until the ability to make choices. The way technology is admiring and the way humans stay attached to their electronics, there is no way to stop the evolution of technology.

Refection:

New Knowledge: I never thought about humans being run by technology. I always knew that technology is a very powerful source and could do a lot of stuff but being combined with it will probably be more helpful. It could regulate your heart beats, blood flow, stamina, cancer cells, etc. I believe it'll bring in more pros than cons but that would just take away the experience of actually being a human, its as If you're being run by a machine.

Prior Knowledge: I always knew that technology is getting more advanced as time goes on. There will never be a limit to it and at some point and time because there is nothing stopping it and people use it on a daily basis. Without technology, we would not have more than half of the stuff we have now and would not even know how an electronic device looks like. Kurzweil believes someone is going to find a way to add technology to be apart of the human body for certain things like to see the activities that are going on in the brain. Technology never stops nor will

Clarity: Will this make people live longer? Will the human mind run like google search engine if there was a chip placed inside of it?

Overall Thoughts: I like this idea because it proves how far technology can go.

Conclusion: Kurzweil believes that technology would go so far as being placed into our own bodies. Instead of being all natural and living base off on what you naturally have, we will have chips in our brains that could make us smarter, have faster acceleration, and could even possibly think like a computer. Not only would it benefit the people, it would benefit the whole population and over come poverty, people would make better decision and would be able to do stuff that they weren’t able to do before. Example, people with disabilities.
 

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Grossman, Lev. "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal." Time. Time Inc., 10 Feb.  2011. Web. 18 Mar. 2014.   0<http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C2048299%2C00.html>.

Kaku, Michio. "We Are Big Idea Hunters…." Big Think. Big, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. <http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/the-technological-singularity-and-merging-with-machines>.