“Homo deus” is a project that has been put into practice in Silicon Valley. The aim of this project is to realize immortality and eternal happiness.

If you live forever, would you appreciate happiness and good feelings? How immortality would handle with overpopulation? If possible, who would get access to immortality? Would that increase the social barriers inside a society? Will the project create a new elite of updated people and a large number of useless standard people? Would the concept of death change? What will be the sense of living forever if robots substitute us? Would that be a desired future? Which kind of digital complements can be inserted into us? Which kind of medicine is awaiting us? If the surgeon is a robot, who will cry for my death?

This are some of the questions that come to your mind when we talk about immortality and new, innovative technology.

If we lived longer we wouldn’t appreciate happiness just for the fact that we would have the same problems we have now, but we would live the present less because we wouldn’t have to worry about our future, because we wouldn’t age. If we don’t die the overpopulation would be uncontrolled since there would be more demand than supply.

If there is a possibility to access to immortality only rich and selfish people would have the opportunity. This project would provide the option to create a new elite of updated people and a large number of useless standard people but that would be unfair because all people must have the option and the right to choose immortality.

They call it transhumanism… this is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology. That means that we'll convert half human-half machines. Humanity will disappear, at least, a little bit.

The concept of death would change. We wouldn't have to worry about tomorrow because we would be able to live forever, we wouldn't have expectations in life, because, why do we have to do it today if we could do it tomorrow? Our goals in live would be less important because we wouldn’t have a certain end in life, you would be able to get it whenever you want. In such a society the concept of death would be more circumstantial because you wouldn't have to worry about dying due to oldness.

Most people would think that robots are a good way to get our job done without doing anything, but do we really think that economy would stand if we don't get pay for the job we achieve?  If we don't have to work, that leads us not to study, because we don't have to be better than the person next to us, we would live in a world full of illiterates. The firsts years of living would be amazing because you could do anything you want without working hard to get it, however we would get tired of being fool and empty persons.

There would be discussions about whether older persons should get blood from younger persons, so that their blood could be a sort “refreshment“. So, in other words, experts say that we all have in our blood a “cocktail of the youth“ which can “renew“ older blood. Maybe, in the future we will get in regular intervals new blood in our body, so that it won’t age. This is tested now by mice.

If the surgeon is a robot, in one hand we could see advantages, robots don’t lead themselves by their emotions, so they just act according to what the science tells them to do. But on the other hand, they will probably not really “fight“ for the lives of their patients.

And that leads us to the the important question, will robophobic people exist?

Yes there will be robophobic people in the future. This could be people who have problems to trust strange things or won’t be easily accustomed to them. Even now, there are robots used in the war who fight against real people. Soldiers who have fought against them could easily develope robophobia.

 

Therefore we can say that the project is imminent, due to this we would have to carry out projects on Bioethics in order to assess whether an immortal life would be ethical or if it would be common to have a robot in our lives just as another type of relationship.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlwvLubFxg

http://fusion.kinja.com/the-strange-and-conflicting-world-views-of-silicon-vall-1793857715

 

SURVEY  

Would you  be afraid of robots who operate you so that they actually have your life in their hands?

 

TEAM 1

Jona Engelking

Ruta Dreyer

Marina Morales

Cristina Verdaguer