This research is being done to understand cognition. To connect to the biochemistry and biophysics. To improve our models and begin making bigger leaps.
Even simple systems like drosophila are wildly complicated.
A hundred years of this type of investigation and maybe one day we'll be able to record memories. Transfer consciousness. End death.
This isn't just "fly VR". This is the curiosity of being human. And yet another slow, methodical step towards solving it all.
Willing acceptance of our eventual fate of turning into ash while being born in a generation that has all the capacity for increasing lifespan is what's dystopian.
Thinking intelligent life should continue in its current state of being mostly meat flesh bags until the sun boils our ancestors is dystopian.
Status quo, not trying to be special, not trying to reach for the stars with our limited time. That's not just dystopian, it's Kafkaesque. We may as well be in cockroach bodies waiting for the universe to crush us, because thats what not looking up from the dirt gets us.
Curiosity, wonder, and unbounded dreams are among the best qualities of human life. They transcend our weak and dying bodies and our mortal lifetimes.
There are worse things than dying. If I trusted humans not to immediately do all of them upon achieving the capability to do them, my opinion here might more resemble yours.
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Forgive me, but this is totally the wrong take.
This research is being done to understand cognition. To connect to the biochemistry and biophysics. To improve our models and begin making bigger leaps.
Even simple systems like drosophila are wildly complicated.
A hundred years of this type of investigation and maybe one day we'll be able to record memories. Transfer consciousness. End death.
This isn't just "fly VR". This is the curiosity of being human. And yet another slow, methodical step towards solving it all.
Humans able to manipulate consciousness the way we do matter and information? Now there's a dystopian take for you...
Willing acceptance of our eventual fate of turning into ash while being born in a generation that has all the capacity for increasing lifespan is what's dystopian.
Thinking intelligent life should continue in its current state of being mostly meat flesh bags until the sun boils our ancestors is dystopian.
Status quo, not trying to be special, not trying to reach for the stars with our limited time. That's not just dystopian, it's Kafkaesque. We may as well be in cockroach bodies waiting for the universe to crush us, because thats what not looking up from the dirt gets us.
Curiosity, wonder, and unbounded dreams are among the best qualities of human life. They transcend our weak and dying bodies and our mortal lifetimes.
There are worse things than dying. If I trusted humans not to immediately do all of them upon achieving the capability to do them, my opinion here might more resemble yours.