Futures of Man: the Hard Way: Man-Machine Interfase

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Even if biological systems (also knwon as individuals) have extensive
possibilities which are not spent by current forms, for rational minds
even with purely biological extensions bodies will be, at some point,
insufficient to express the whole capabilities of a flexible,
programmable system like the human mind. Being essentially decoupled
from the possibilities of the body that hosts them, the possibility of
interfasing to even more flexible artificial systems is a natural step
in the evolution of a rational species, once such a species arrives to
the point where it can take control of its own evolution.

This evolution need not be biological in nature; several possibilities
are open to engage in symbiotic forms with artificial systems, to
several degrees of interaction. The easiest is of course the use of
tools, the same tools that made man evolve in the sense of an expanded
mind. On the other extreme it can be envision the use of naturally
growable asrtificial extensions, coded in DNA and taking advantage of
natural biological subproducts like polymers, bone, resins... and
combinatuions with metals, ceramics, etc.

Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore

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Even if biological systems (also knwon as individuals) have extensive
possibilities which are not spent by current forms, for rational minds
even with purely biological extensions bodies will be, at some point,
insufficient to express the whole capabilities of a flexible,
programmable system like the human mind. Being essentially decoupled
from the possibilities of the body that hosts them, the possibility of
interfasing to even more flexible artificial systems is a natural step
in the evolution of a rational species, once such a species arrives to
the point where it can take control of its own evolution.
This evolution need not be biological in nature; several possibilities
are open to engage in symbiotic forms with artificial systems, to
several degrees of interaction. The easiest is of course the use of
tools, the same tools that made man evolve in the sense of an expanded
mind. On the other extreme it can be envision the use of naturally
growable asrtificial extensions, coded in DNA and taking advantage of
natural biological subproducts like polymers, bone, resins... and
combinatuions with metals, ceramics, etc.
Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore

This path is akin to the modification of bacteria to produce useful
chemicals, but instead of simple chemical modifications would take the
form of quasi-biological constructions suitable for machine interfases!
In principle, DNA is capable of encoding any construction principle as
it can encode the instructions to build builders. So it should be easy
to encode the production of materials such as wood, horn, or more
promising, polymers, ready to assume useful forms to extend the
capabilities of the human body and other animals' bodies.

Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore

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Note that we are already used to interfasing with machines, to the
point that the first cybernetic attempts at formalizing computing
science included in their first approach "systems" composed of men and
machines, or a one author put it "animate and inanimate matter".
Nowadays children cartoons emphatize the remote possiblity of becoming
interchangeable or part of "compound" beings. Thoughh this is
mechanically possible, makes no sense from a biological point of view,
as it is easier to make (procreate) individuals and teach them to
interfase than to create (modify) individuals to become part of
machines! Or modular. Yet it is inegable that when it comes to
interfasing to computers, our eyes and fingers cannot go as far as, for
instance, the ability to directly "plug in" to computers through
interfases like MIDI or similar. It is this kind of interfases the ones
that are the most priomising view of directky interfasing to
machines...

Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore

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Even if biological systems (also knwon as individuals) have extensive
possibilities which are not spent by current forms, for rational minds
even with purely biological extensions bodies will be, at some point,
insufficient to express the whole capabilities of a flexible,
programmable system like the human mind. Being essentially decoupled
from the possibilities of the body that hosts them, the possibility of
interfasing to even more flexible artificial systems is a natural step
in the evolution of a rational species, once such a species arrives to
the point where it can take control of its own evolution.
This evolution need not be biological in nature; several possibilities
are open to engage in symbiotic forms with artificial systems, to
several degrees of interaction. The easiest is of course the use of
tools, the same tools that made man evolve in the sense of an expanded
mind. On the other extreme it can be envision the use of naturally
growable asrtificial extensions, coded in DNA and taking advantage of
natural biological subproducts like polymers, bone, resins... and
combinatuions with metals, ceramics, etc.
Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore

This path is akin to the modification of bacteria to produce useful
chemicals, but instead of simple chemical modifications would take the
form of quasi-biological constructions suitable for machine interfases!
In principle, DNA is capable of encoding any construction principle as
it can encode the instructions to build builders. So it should be easy
to encode the production of materials such as wood, horn, or more
promising, polymers, ready to assume useful forms to extend the
capabilities of the human body and other animals' bodies.
Fabrizio J Bonsignore, now Danilo J Bonsignore