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===What arguments speak for the Daodan?=== | ===What arguments speak for the Daodan?=== | ||
What arguments could someone use in public to advertise the Daodan?<br> | What arguments could someone use in public to advertise the Daodan?<br> | ||
'''1) regenerate | '''1) regenerate lost limbs, faster wound healing, avoid cancer'''<br> | ||
'''2) compensate slow-paced invention cycles'''<br> | '''2) compensate slow-paced invention cycles'''<br> | ||
'''3) compensate lack of natural selection'''<br> | '''3) compensate lack of natural selection'''<br> | ||
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'''2) Some events just happen too fast for Bureaucracy and medical standard procedures.''' | '''2) Some events just happen too fast for Bureaucracy and medical standard procedures.''' | ||
Without a drastic improvement there could be never a cure | Without a drastic improvement there could be never a cure for a new deadly pathogen what can kill within hours. | ||
This is the point that Hasegawa would had in mind when he tried to find a cure for Jamie's disease. | This is the point that Hasegawa would had in mind when he tried to find a cure for Jamie's disease. | ||
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'''4) Humans often act unwise.''' | '''4) Humans often act unwise.''' | ||
There's an increasing problem with antibiotics. We use them too often to keep ourselves and the livestock healthy. That puts bacteria under [[wikipedia:Evolutionary pressure|evolutionary pressure]]. There are concerns that more ''[[wikipedia:Super_bug_(bacteria)|super bugs]]'' emerge. These multidrug resistant bacteria can't be easily cured. The media-popular MRSA | There's an increasing problem with antibiotics. We use them too often to keep ourselves and the livestock healthy. That puts bacteria under [[wikipedia:Evolutionary pressure|evolutionary pressure]]. There are concerns that more ''[[wikipedia:Super_bug_(bacteria)|super bugs]]'' emerge. These multidrug resistant bacteria can't be easily cured. The media-popular MRSA strain residing in hospitals is such a danger. | ||
Scientists try to come up with methods to reuse old antibiotic or find new ones. However, it can be assumed that the bacteria will also adapt to the new inventions. It's a neverending arms race. | Scientists try to come up with methods to reuse old antibiotic or find new ones. However, it can be assumed that the bacteria will also adapt to the new inventions. It's a neverending arms race. | ||
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At the latest when you run into a group of [https://www.google.de/search?q=Abara&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7kC5U4eEBqOJzAO2voGwBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=1040 Abara look-alikes], this will stress your sense of safety. | At the latest when you run into a group of [https://www.google.de/search?q=Abara&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7kC5U4eEBqOJzAO2voGwBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=1040 Abara look-alikes], this will stress your sense of safety. | ||
When you can't distinguish between humans and animals you soon have a fantasy setting similar to some MMO. Cooperation will just depend of people's will to accept or reject | When you can't distinguish between humans and animals you soon have a fantasy setting similar to some MMO. Cooperation will just depend of people's will to accept or reject the different appearance. | ||
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This is similar to teleportation. | This is similar to teleportation. | ||
A person enters the teleporter. Information becomes copied and matter destroyer. The information becomes transfered. Then the person becomes rebuilt. If there's anything like a soul was it killed? How can we be sure this is the same person? | A person enters the teleporter. Information becomes copied and matter destroyer. The information becomes transfered. Then the person becomes rebuilt. If there's anything like a soul, was it killed? How can we be sure this is the same person? | ||
Now let's imagine we teleport everything but the brain from place A to place B. The mind is still at A, isn't it? | Now let's imagine we teleport everything but the brain from place A to place B. The mind is still at A, isn't it? | ||
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So, for the Daodan we can imagine that our brain cells get replaced one by one whereby normal and upgraded cells are always linked. | So, for the Daodan we can imagine that our brain cells get replaced one by one whereby normal and upgraded cells are always linked. | ||
The mind remains original at any time. We are just changing to | The mind remains original at any time. We are just changing to another hardware. | ||