How far is too far?

[Posey Gilbert]

Should there be limits to what we should know?​

How far is too far?​

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[stonehart]

I have not voted yet and may do after having a look at the video.. but from my point of view knowledge itself is not the problem neither is the per-suite of it as such, it is how we use that knowledge and what we use it for that is the real question.

I mean read the quote I have below from Bertrand Russell..... sort of sums things up.

 

[mike]

I havent watched the video, but my gut reaction is there should be no limits to what we should know.
Knowledge in and of itself is not good or evil, the application of such, might attract such labels

 

[mike]

Ok, ive already posted about this topic
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Now listen to what is said around the 3 :43 min mark, Stronger than anything we can MAKE ourselves..........
This to me is the ultimate reason why ET might be here, evolution is the best inventor the universe has ever seen.
The mother of all invention, is genetic expression, it can produce things we cant "make"

Each planet sustaining life will produce "products" unique to that environment, variables including gravitational field, cosmic and solar radiation etc etc etc.

This planet is a treasure trove of "products", recognising and utilising this knowledge brings us one step closer to parity with the intent and purpose of ET imo.

Being able to reverse engineer, and exploit these products is imo a very high expression of technological prowess, and once we exhaust the possibiltys and products expressed here on earth........ the next step is to find a whole new factory/s of genetic products ie other biospheres and use them too.

Its the next step up on the ladder of technological ability, and one i'm proud to see in my lifetime
For me seeing spider/goat hybrids is as exciting as seeing Armstrong walk on another world

As for the poll, there is little point voting, they are all "yes" votes, and my answer is invariably going to be yes here.
To suggest we shouldnt dabble in genetic science is to suggest we shouldnt have dabbled in metalurgy, only the nature of the building blocks is different

 

[mike]

I'll go one step further, and suggest that if we as a species become old enough, we will find planets capable of supporting the bioproduction process, seed it with the appropriate starter genes, and then return later to see what "products" have been created.
This scenario would be aided by and or an expanded life span of individual conciousness sets, or what we call time travel.
And slightly off topic i contend that what we think of as the limitation of linear time, is an artifact of our technological shortcomings and not a fundamental restriction per say, much in the same way the idea of travelling above the clouds at twice the speed of sound, was considered fantasy only a few hundred years ago

Designing a product is all well and good, but clearly the bioprocess is going to give you unanticipated properties and products, Novel results, rather than planned ones.

And i suggest that the novel results are the most valuable, we tend to get caught up in the paradigms of our reality, biofactories produce novel results, therin lies their value

As futurist, the big question that looms from this scenario is do we "own" the products thus created, even if they become spontaneously sentient............................
As an analogy were i to build hardware and write software that became self aware, would i still own that equipment ?

 

[Posey Gilbert]

I havent watched the video, but my gut reaction is there should be no limits to what we should know.
Knowledge in and of itself is not good or evil, the application of such, might attract such labels

I hate to say it but I agree.
Frankly I think that's how we became us anyway.
We were tweaked.

 

[Posey Gilbert]

I have not voted yet and may do after having a look at the video.. but from my point of view knowledge itself is not the problem neither is the per-suite of it as such, it is how we use that knowledge and what we use it for that is the real question.

I mean read the quote I have below from Bertrand Russell..... sort of sums things up.

I think we have to go onward the risks be damned, but then again I'm sixty what the
hell have I got to worry about?
I remember when everyone was worried about the threat of computers being in every home, and how many swore they'd never have one.
They'd kill you now if you ever tried to take theirs now.