Molecular Manufacturing..... A work in progress.

[Eteocles]

Squig, I think you meant: "I print out my Robe and Wizard Hat." ;D

[Gallo]

Last time nanotech came up in these forums, I mentioned Ray Kurzweil's book: The Singularity. He spells out a lot of the potential benefits of nanotechnology including the theoretical "replacement body" that Xzin talked about. Some of the possibilities are beyond the word "cool".

He extrapolated the constantly accelerating speed at which computer processors are developing, and determined that by 2045 we'd have the necessary tools to do the absolutely unimaginable.

For all you skeptics out there that say "A nanofabricated body? That's impossible" or "Nanorobots delivering medicine directly to my cells at a molecular level, impossible", just expand your thinking a bit. If you visited someone back in the 1700's and said "In about 150 years, you'll be able to talk to someone on the other side of the globe with a little machine that you talk into!" people would have sent you to the crazy house. Even if you said 100 years ago "All of the libraries of the world will eventually be able to be accessed from virtually anywhere with a small notebook sized machine" they would also label you crazy.

I have a lot of hopes for stuff like this... it truly is an exciting time to live (a bit cliche, I admit).

[Ryan]

Last time nanotech came up in these forums, I mentioned Ray Kurzweil's book: The Singularity. He spells out a lot of the potential benefits of nanotechnology including the theoretical "replacement body" that Xzin talked about. Some of the possibilities are beyond the word "cool".

Is it just me, or is the first possibility thought of with "replacement body" is a quick and easy gender change. Which I find terribly exciting.

[Xzin]

Is it just me, or is the first possibility thought of with "replacement body" is a quick and easy gender change. Which I find terribly exciting.

Presuming that when we reach that level of technology, we can transplant an entire male brain into a perfectly hot female body (vocal chords and all)..... the brain would still be "male" and as such likely to still be, well, male. Would you have a period? Would you respond to the mostly body created hormonal surge of PMS in the same way as a "real" female? Could you reproduce with "your" altered sperm now turned into eggs? How would that even work? Could you become pregnant? With your old bodies sperm?

For all intents and purposes, with no modifications, your brain would be a gradually feminizing lesbian male brain. I can't imagine the brain would be completely unaffected by the body.

So......

Even if only your brain were kept intact and looked like the hottest woman on Earth, pretty sure I would still prefer the real deal.

[Xzin]

Wtb cloned body parts for replacement. A living organism, is by definition, a factory for itself. Also, wtb a way to eliminate scarring and reconnect nerves.

Bjork - All is full of love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA

A more realistic shorter term future body replacement?

W/ oblig hot robot intercourse.

[Toned]

Read Jack Uldrich's Book; The Next Big Thing is Really Small

[Vos]

hmmm my first thought is, "how will DARPA weaponize this?"

[Gallo]

Is it just me, or is the first possibility thought of with "replacement body" is a quick and easy gender change. Which I find terribly exciting.

Presuming that when we reach that level of technology, we can transplant an entire male brain into a perfectly hot female body (vocal chords and all)..... the brain would still be "male" and as such likely to still be, well, male. Would you have a period? Would you respond to the mostly body created hormonal surge of PMS in the same way as a "real" female? Could you reproduce with "your" altered sperm now turned into eggs? How would that even work? Could you become pregnant? With your old bodies sperm?

For all intents and purposes, with no modifications, your brain would be a gradually feminizing lesbian male brain. I can't imagine the brain would be completely unaffected by the body.

So......

Even if only your brain were kept intact and looked like the hottest woman on Earth, pretty sure I would still prefer the real deal.

What is the exact definition of gender? Is it a mind AND body thing? Who's to say that a male brain couldn't "learn" what it is to be female after 5-10 years of being in the body. Stuff like this brings up a lot of interesting philosophical questions.

Most open minded people would jump at the chance to have an experience as a member of the opposite sex. When we can build our own bodies, everyone is going to be "perfect".... if everyone is "perfect" what is considered beautiful? We can't ALL be attractive

[Xzin]

What is the exact definition of gender? Is it a mind AND body thing? Who's to say that a male brain couldn't "learn" what it is to be female after 5-10 years of being in the body. Stuff like this brings up a lot of interesting philosophical questions.

Most open minded people would jump at the chance to have an experience as a member of the opposite sex. When we can build our own bodies, everyone is going to be "perfect".... if everyone is "perfect" what is considered beautiful? We can't ALL be attractive

Beauty is more than your exterior features.

So, after 5-10 years, would a straight male brain being bombarded by female hormones (and in a female body) change their desires and become attracted to males? Or is sexual preference more "hardwired" (despite its fluidity) at birth?

[Xzin]

? I don't follow.

I thonk a lot of people underestimate the PROFOUND effect that even very small amounts of certain compounds can have.

LSD, Blowfish toxin, most drugs (of which most pills are filler), hormones etc.

Estrogen (and other hormones, as guys have estrogen and women have testosterone) plays a rather large role in the body and the brain.

To what end when it comes to gender identity in a body that was not yours at birth, I cannot say.