Holt's vision... immortality, raises many moral questions.His species as it stood didn't deserve to survive: that was the crucial point. Therefore humankind had to change. They had to learn from the Amnion as much as the Amnion learned from them.
They had to become capable of what the Amnion could do.
Force-growing infants.
Imprinting minds.
Practical immortality.
The Amnion had it already. They passed their peculiar consciousness undisturbed from one generation to the next. Their bodies had become tools, organic artifacts, to be shaped, used and discarded as necessary: when one suffered damage, grew old, or died, they simply imprinted themselves upon another. For that reason their ultimate victory over humankind was inevitable. There was no limit to how much they could learn - or how long they could wait.
But if human beings acquired the same capability - if they developed the skill to pass their minds from one inadequate, mortal body to the next - if Holt could prolong his own life indefinitely - Ah, then the nature of the real contest would be altered. Then humankind's innate talents for treachery and mass production would enable them to overwhelm their genetic enemies. And Hold would lead humanity into a limitless future.
Death would never be able to touch him.
Do you think Holt's vision is bad? That it is morally wrong? Or that is an amazing imaginative goal? If you had the chance, would you take that immortality?
Never mind the practical questions the question raises. the reality of no-one ever dying, and over-population. I know that, we all do. Instead look at the ethics of Holt's vision.
Honestly, if it were me, and I was in the position where I had a choice, I would take the option of "Imprinting minds", or drugs to fight against the aging process; maybe not forever, but for a time at least.
Because I take it as given that God and heaven do not exist. We are mortal, composed of biological cells, tissues, nucleuses. There is no "spirit" to go up to heaven, and the idea of heaven is impractical; it doesn't exist.
Therefore death is the end, one your body dies, and you die. Forever.
Does anyone want that to happen to them? I don't, I would certainly jump at the catch to prevent my death; and I wouldn't be the only one.
What about anyone here? What would you do?
). If we allow ourselves to evolve along with the changes of the natural worl, we stand a better chance of surviving a lot longer with the world. Unfortunately, we forse to drastic a change upon ourselves and the world, so that neither can catch up naturally, and we are forsed to change things further.
good one...
