Some people are already choosing to self evolve into Cyborgs

This is something that sort of like tattoos or body piercings that is inevitable for a certain segment of mankind, likely younger people especially between the ages of 20 to 40 when they have the freedom to do this sort of thing and enough money to do it.

begin quote from National Geographic called "The Next Human" April 2017 starging page 42:


When I met the cyborg Neil Harbison and Barcelona he looked like any local hipster, except for the black antenna arching impressively from the back of his skull over his mop of blonde hair.

It was December, and Harbison, 34, was wearing a zippered gray shirt under a black pea coat, with gray narrow pants. Born in Belfast and raised in Spain, he has a rare condition called a achromatopsia; he cannot perceive color. His antenna, which ends in a fiber optic sensor that covers right above his eyes, has change that.

Harbison never felt that living in a black-and-white world was the disability." I see longer distances. I also memorize shapes more easily because color doesn't distract me," he told me, in his careful, neutral English.

But he was deeply curious about what things look like in color too. Having trained as a musician, he had the idea in his late teens of trying to discover color through sound. After some low-tech false starts, in his early 20s he found the surgeon (who remains anonymous) who was willing to implant a device, a cybernetic enhancement to his biological self

. The fiber optic sensor picks up the colors in front of him, and I'm microchip implanted in his skull converts their frequencies into vibrations on the back of his head. Those become sound frequencies , turning his skull into a sort of third ear. He correctly identified my blazer is blue, and pointing his antenna and his friend moon rebus, a cyborg artist and dancer, said her jacket was yellow–– Hit actually was mustard yellow, but as he explained, in Catalonia" we didn't grow up with mustard.”

When I asked Harbison how the doctor had attached the device, he cheerfully parted the hair at the back of his head to show me the antennas point of entry. The pinkish flesh was pressed down by a rectangular plate with two anchors. A connected implant held the vibrating microchip and another implant was a Bluetooth communication hub so friends could sent him colors through his smart phone
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The antenna has been a revelation for Harbison the world is more exhilarating for him now. Over time, he said, the input has begun to feel neither like site nor hearing but a sixth sense.

The most intriguing part of the antenna, though, is that it gives him an ability the rest of us don't have. He looked at the lamps on the roof deck and sends that the infrared lights that activate them more off. He glanced at the planners and could see the ultraviolet markings that show where nectar is located at the centers of the flowers. He has not just matched ordinary human skills; he has exceeded them.

He is, then, the first step toward the goal that visionary futurists have always had, and early example of what Ray Kurzweil in his well-known book “the singularity is near” calls “the vast expansion of human potential.“ Harbison had been particularly meant to jumpstart Kurzwieil’s dream––his vision of the future is more Sylvan than silicon. But since he became the world's first official cyborg (he persuaded the British government to let him wear the antenna and his passport photo, arguing that it was not an electronic device, but an extension of his brain), he has also become a proselytizer. Ree bus soon followed him into what is sometimes called trans humanism by having a seismic monitor in her phone connect to a vibrating magnet buried in her upper arm gets real-time reports of earthquakes allowing her to feel connected to the motions of the earth and interpret them to dance." I guess I got jealous," she says.

"we will transcend all the limitations of our biology," Kurzweil promised." That is what it means to be human––to extend who we are.”

Clearly Harbison's antenna is merely a beginning. But are we on the way to redefining how we evolved? Does evolution now mean not just the slow grind of natural selection spreading desirable jeans, but also everything that we can do to amplify our powers and the powers of the things remake–– Are union of genes, culture, and technology? And if so, where is it taking us?

Note: the above quote from National Geographic was almost completely done (with 4 to 10 corrections in typing) using enhanced dictation on a Mac OS Sierra Macbook pro laptop 15 inch screen made in the 2015 and 2016 models. (There is a 2017 but my daughter thought I wouldn't use all the extra bells and whistles but I must say enhanced dictation is pretty cool! end note.

I think people self evolving into Cyborgs will be about as successful maybe as people taking LSD.

In other words a lot of people are going to die or go crazy in the process of perfecting cyborgology so they are compatible with human anatomy. Of course some people also might circumvent human anatomy by using various herbal and synthetic drugs. But then again many are going to go crazy or die just like the people who first flew motorized airplanes until the add-ons become perfected enough not to drive people crazy, physiologically unbalance people or just outright kill them.

This is my thought on the subject. It's sort of like the old computer motto: "Garbage in Garbage out".

in other words if your program is garbage so is the result. So, hardware and software needs to not poison the biological unit that is human and needs to not drive the neurons or brain or muscles or nervous system crazy either or else people are just going to be going crazy or getting dead and that just the way it really is.

So, if you really don't know what you are doing the likelihood is you will be crazy or dead soon with this kind of stuff when you try to biologically interface with it.

For example, even in the examples given are the units installed compatible and not giving the people infections?

Are the units installed like Blue Tooth eventually going to give them brain tumors or lymp cancer?

We don't really know any of these answers right now and might not for 20 to 40 years. And even then that information might be suppressed by manufacturers of Cyborg implants then.

For example, I knew someone who did psylocybin about once every 3 to 10 days from college for around 10 years with no mental ill effects. However, by his 40s he had to have a liver transplant because the toxins had killed his liver. A few years later he died of a brain tumor. So, like I said if you do crazy things often you just wind up dead in life.

I'm with the Greeks. Moderation in all things. whenever you see people going to to much of an extreme you have sort of got to eventually watch them go crazy or die. this is just what I have noticed in life.

so, the same is with all this. Though you can likely modify yourself in all sorts of ways what are the short and long term  consequences of all this?

What will you gain and what will you lose? However, if you look back at the history of motorized flight you mostly see a whole lot of dead test pilots whose children had to grow up without them. But, if you have ever rode on a passenger plane we wouldn't be able to do that without all the guys and gals that gave their lives for us.

And the same is true of our country. We wouldn't have a country now without all the guys and gals that have died for us to have the country we have.

Note: I realized that many of the errors the Enhanced dictation made are hard to spot simply because they are not the kinds of mistakes I would make. So, since it is now 11:30 Pm Sunday night and I just got back from San Francisco picking up my daughter from college and visiting friends back on the way I'm not going to fix it now. And I cannot guarantee I'm going to fix it tomorrow because first i have to have the time to do this and 2nd I have to remember to do it. Have a Good night everyone!