will morphological freedom ever be feasible?

Submitted by Cr4zko t3_11z2c92 in singularity

I see lots and lots of people in this sub into transhumanism 'n' all... not considering how many younger folks are outside of the mainstream when it comes to gender. So I wonder, will this desire of being someone else be quelled?

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elevenvolt t1_jdajiz3 wrote

It seems like gene editing, nanotechnology, BCI virtual reality, or some combination, developed and powered by AGI/ASI should make this possible eventually. Hopefully this can happen early next decade but that might be a bit optimistic. Morphological freedom is good for different species identities too

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Noogleader t1_jdajgre wrote

It depends if consciousness can ultimately be transferred in some way from one brain to another or into a substrate that can easily be moved between bodies.

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turnip_burrito t1_jdbtshp wrote

There's a third option: brain in a safe and secure box in a vault somewhere, connected to bodies by remote control.

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SoylentRox t1_jdbuvfo wrote

Right now, you can go get human surgeries that attempt to transition one gender to another.

Obviously the surgeries are not able to fix many things, and leave scars and all kinds of damage.

Demos of medical labs 3d printing human organs have existed for 15+ years, but a combination of bureaucratic inertia and just flat problems with the printed organs have prevented their use.

Presumably if AI is in charge of the organ production, and it's had an enormous amount of practice doing it and many scientific experiments to understand it fully, much better organs could be created, new skin, new structures, whole limbs, and so on.

This would probably be initially be used to help the elderly - since you can basically replace their bodies except the brain this way - but eventually there would be perfect gender reassignment surgery.

Presumably eventually with nanotechnology, surgical incisions might be far tighter and cleaner - right along the line of cells, cutting structures without damage, and more importantly, suturing might be exact, where all the nerves and individual fibers in each muscle are actually reattached correctly, using protein based glue similar to how the cells bond now, and a lot less pain and inflammation after the patient wakes up - maybe none.

All that pain and scarring and swelling is basically because current surgeons don't have any better tools, this is the best they can do. (medical science does know the reason for a lot of it but has failed to develop tools to prevent it)

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LasesNutzername t1_jdajeq0 wrote

For me it’s not about the desire to be someone else. I’m more about augmenting the human making the world more accessible through tech.

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Animas_Vox t1_jdaqg2n wrote

No it never will be. It’s literally a force of evolution. Sense the dawn of time things have been crawling out of the water and onto the land. It will always be this way as long as the universe continues to evolve and expand.

Edit: no to your second question about desire, not your first question

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[deleted] t1_jdav2k8 wrote

Technology already hijacked Evolution... We're constrained only by materiality now.

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anaIconda69 t1_jdbwka6 wrote

I think the comment above refers to limits that are in our heads, our desires (2nd questions by OP)

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