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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3331314" data-attributes="member: 7177">That's one of the great things about Transhuman Space - it can mean all sorts of things to different people. What some people consider great advances, others see as a part of the destruction of the human spirit.Of course, some things in the setting will be seen as &quot;bad&quot; by most people, such as bioroid slavery. But other aspects - most notably human genetic engineering - will be considered as great advances by some people and really, really disturbing by others. And then there is destructive uploading, a process during which a brain is peeled into slices and a software personality emulation is created which is outwardly indistinguishable from the personality of the human being - but which is now effectively immortal (as long as it keeps backup copies in case of accidents) and can travel between different planets at the speed of light. In fact, this technology has spawned its own hotly debated philosophical question - is the software emulation &quot;the same person&quot; as the biological entity that came before it? A number of jurisdictions in the setting treat them as such, but not everyone - both in and outside of the setting disagrees.In any case, whether you see Transhuman Space as an utopia or a dystopia, it sure is thought-provoking...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 3331314, member: 7177"] That's one of the great things about Transhuman Space - it can mean all sorts of things to different people. What some people consider great advances, others see as a part of the destruction of the human spirit. Of course, some things in the setting will be seen as "bad" by most people, such as bioroid slavery. But other aspects - most notably human genetic engineering - will be considered as great advances by some people and really, really disturbing by others. And then there is destructive uploading, a process during which a brain is peeled into slices and a software personality emulation is created which is outwardly indistinguishable from the personality of the human being - but which is now effectively immortal (as long as it keeps backup copies in case of accidents) and can travel between different planets at the speed of light. In fact, this technology has spawned its own hotly debated philosophical question - is the software emulation "the same person" as the biological entity that came before it? A number of jurisdictions in the setting treat them as such, but not everyone - both in and outside of the setting disagrees. In any case, whether you see Transhuman Space as an utopia or a dystopia, it sure is thought-provoking... [/QUOTE]

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