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Plastic surgery, prosthetics and robotics began to merge as one science. Our bodies began to become more and more
mechanical and it became hard to tell the difference
between man and machine.
All trends in technology began to converge and the
completely artificial human became a reality. The
microscopic machinery of organic life was copied and
created by human ingenuity. Instead of technology going its way it headed towards us, shrunk down and merged into us.
Our creations truely became a part of us.
The human body became more and more suspect
and seemingly undependable when compared with the new
flesh. The more perfect our technologie became the more
suspect the flesh, as an undependable heap of mutations and accumulated errors, became.
People could be
injured and there were these uncontrollable drives, and it
died. This body was a thing of the past, just another phase that we humans had to go through. There were those that
decided to stay in their human form but it was cheating
since they knew that they would be resurrected. They
imagined that they were in as precarious a situation as
people were before resurrection technologies were
discovered. People born before the resurrection
technologies lived out their entire lives knowing that they were going to die! The histories showed that people
actually enjoyed life in these miserable conditions of
potential pain and sufferring.
Moving into the new body and the fight begins
The new body became home. People didn't trust the bodies
they were given, to unsafe and they died. At the same time
artificial intelligences were becoming human like in their
consciousness. They didn't want to give up their bodies for a secure place for our homelees souls.
The sterotypes of humans being the highest form of life
began to pass and were replaced a humbling realization that there could be something that we could make that would be better than what we had been given. Artificial Intelligences were becoming -more human than human- and the appeal of the biological body weakened. These artificial
creatures had had a chance to develope a tradition before
we decided to move in so it was inevitable that some sort
of struggle would ensue.
We decided to create more of these robotic
artificial intalligences and to posses them before they got a chance to form an identity. Just like nature, when in doubt simply make more, and so we did.
These higher creatures held our attention for a while
because they truely were like gods. But then we began to
see how we made the mistake of looking at ourselves like
this in the past. These robotic tin cans looked down on us
like we, in past times, looked down on the animals, as
inferior creatures. Then even newer versions came out and
as we moved into them, before they could claim a soul, we
were a little higher than those creatures, that looked down on us as barbarian creatures. Besides since every possible soul was in the works -allsouls.com- there would not really be a problem of some entity comeing along that would be greater.
It was not good enough to just create more because this was life and not some product made in a factory. The line
blurred between all human / machine distinctions. If we had not gained the ability to move into these little gods when
we did they would have moved over us and we would become
like wild animals in their civilized world of higher
consciousness.
It was a good thing that we moved in so quickly since all
of the terrible sci fi robot takes over the human race
scenarios were about to come true. They said, who cares if
it is superior to us, it is going to be us, and so it was
that they became like gods at the expense of possible gods. Why, they wondered, had people tried, in the past, to stop
progress? They reasoned that it was because they did not
realise that the technologies would become a part of them. That they would don the technology and make it a part of themselves before it greww smatter than themm. A cold war of sorts broke out that put us on top every time becoming more higher in consciousness and more god like that the old way -as we are now--.
Most of the human race, over a short time
left their bodies, but there were still a few human purists who wanted to live and die in these undependeble bodies.
They were looked at as freaks because they chose to stay in the frail human body.
It was obvious that all of the beliefs of the past would survive till the end of time. There would be beleivers of
every sort up until billions of years had past. Even when
they had figured out how to build the human spirit there
were still mysteries that could not be answered. Some stayed in human bodies, and they were the nightly news. These people got sick, injured, and died, and the consensus was that we must outlaw human bodies.
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