I honestly believe in the singularity. The reason is a personal one. AS someone who has seen his type II diabetes cured by the Gastric Bypass Surgery it occurrs to me that many cures are out there to be found for many illnesses that affect the human condition.
The philosophical considerations have always played a role in how we think about these things. If there was a cure for alcoholism and drug abuse , if there was a cure for schizophrenia or bipolar illness , wouldn't someone try and get that cure to alleviate the suffering from pain? There are so many issues when it comes to philosophy as to what constitutes illness because of our sense of self-determination vs. genetic causation..
It is my firm belief that homosapien was gifted with the white matter in the brain as a part of the overall immune system. It basically is a part of the immune system that allows us to think ways to preserve ourselves instead of just counting on genetic immunity , we find ways to manipulate those things around us to preserve ourselves by even having learned the differences between , humoral and genetic immunity...
We have been gifted as one huge immune system cell and I wonder sometimes why we see the brain and body amd al systems of the body as separate We even have the ability to override the brain-stem to actually curtail it's effects that would not help us to preserve ourselves in situations we can gauge with our white matter. We can put aside instinctual and primitive responses : an ability which in many instance can help us to preserve ourselves.
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