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April 23, 2016

Renovating the species is a job best done on the sly.

Ten years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin couldn’t stop talking about their excitement at the prospect of extending or replacing the human brain with computers. For the last several years, they’ve been much quieter about their mind-disruption project. I sense that a soldier in Google’s flak army warned them that in voicing their fantasies they risked weirding people out. Renovating the species is a job best done on the sly. ROUGH TYPE

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 23, 2016 6:40 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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People will start to wonderin' about who the *donors* are.

While in theory it is potentially possible to map and catalog all human cells at any given moment in time, but like Bones I wonder how the soul is beamed.

I have long speculated that rather than "moving" the person to the new location, a copy is made and it is then transported, and upon delivery the original is *murdered* and disposed.

The journey down this road is unending.....

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 23, 2016 8:00 PM

Several writers have posed the idea that the human body is nothing more than a vehicle for sea water to move itself from one place to another. Considering the composition of the body, very close to true.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 24, 2016 5:36 AM

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