Re: do animals psychologize?

Posted by gepr on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/do-animals-psychologize-tp7591762p7591833.html

Same as it ever was.  Death is already *mostly* voluntary.  Anyone can commit suicide any time they want.  That the overwhelming majority of us *choose* not to is important.  The particular alternatives we continually choose to engage define us.  Would you rather ingest engineered cells?  Or perhaps (as I did) engineered antibodies?  I've long thought that the Singularity is metaphysical hooha; and generalized AI will arise through a merging of wet- with hard-ware ... chip in the brain before brain in the laptop, an evolution not a revolution.  So, programmatically controllable cells just seems like a natural step along the way ... much like the spittle bug's kidney and the built environments we all find surrounding us.

On 9/21/18 7:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

> There’s almost certainly blue-screen-of-death scenarios here – we die of bugs, or bio-malware. 
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> And then what will we die of? 
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> Before we make life infinite, we better change the laws to make death voluntary.

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