in the shell

As a response to Phalanx Observation's idea, So what do you think, the human body will just become a public output on one's current emotional situation. That's pretty much already programed into us, i.e. tears, smiles, frowns, wrinkled forehead. But what you are saying is make the human body languag...

I guess I would end up with several faces and bodies in my closet. One for every occasion. I wouldn't want to get my formal face and body wet surfing or diving Or heaven forbid. Use my everyday body at a job interview. The I would also need several ethnic bodies and faces for when I go clubbing in ...

So personally what do you think people will do? Conform to the same body type and create the end to all we know as personality? Personally in my world (high school) this has allready happened except for a select few. I know what it's like to feel insuperior but I also know what it's like to feel uni...

Simply because society is able to assimilate according to their physical appearance doesn’t mean they will jump on any opportunity to do so. Humans want to be unique and customizing your appearance could be just as regular as choosing your avatar. I know that I am always annoyed when I'm playing an ...

Faith has no place in being proven. I will not imply my religious view however, it is ironic to discuss and try to show evidence for or against something which is meant to be followed blindly. If you truly believed in this then you would have not created this topic and you would have not minded anyo...

Excuse me for making it look like I was refering my quote when I said "Bringing this post back to topic..." That was not what I intended. I was refering to the previous post to mine. The one talking about post length and such. I infact thought that the posts I quoted were very interesting ...

AI will never surpass us because they need us to reproduce them. And they are not biological creatures so they can't evolve and adapt when nessesary. they also need us to mantane them. Well I don't know. Think about how cars get built nowadays. It's mostly machines building other machines. Who's to...

What makes you think these AI's wont reach the same mental peak as ourselves?

I guess they could observe at a better quality than us, and outlive us. And cross many other human physical boundaries. But how can truely say they will stop interpreting and start understanding.

I don't really understand sadism, to me it just appears to be selfishness. When being sadistic you are satisfying a desire to see others in discomfort. While it is not a normal desire it is a desire all the same so by being sadistic you are merely satisfying desire. However, since this desire does ...