Friday, October 2, 2009
The Competition Between Enhancements
Although the other options sound very intriguing, I would have to side with the natural body. The option to be another body, enhanced or not, would take away the actual sense of humanity. In a way everyone would be equal. Speaking in terms of athletics and physical aspectics, the person that would be best at these would be the one who could afford the most upgrades. Competition between humans have been a joy for everyone to watch; however, with these enhancements the sense of competition would be gone. Competition has always been about one persons strive to become better give that 110%: the human factor. A machine can only go as far as 100%, but with heart a human can go above and beyond their physical limitations and achieve almost anything. With machines, this possibility is eliminated. Although their initial power would be greater than ours, humans always will be able to out-do machines. When someone goes above and beyond their limitations, they are said to have "heart." This "heart", which I interpret to be will power, would be skewed with the physical enhancements provided by machines. A machine does not think. A machine does not live. A machine does not have "heart." They are only cold, hard metal, and the only thing left is cold, hard limitations.
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I agree that the competition in our world will greatly suffer if we were to give up the "human factor" in exchange for enhanced upgrades. When I watch things such as the Olympics, I feel that all the athletes are relatively similar in terms of athletic ability and strength. However, the thing that separates the winners from the losers is heart; it is all about who wants it more. I agree that if we were to just throw on some robotic legs or arms on people, then it just becomes a competition of "who has the better upgrades", rather than "who has more heart"
ReplyDeleteI found your comment about how the other bodies would decrease the validity of athletics. I agree that whoever could afford the best upgrades would excel. This argument has some indirect relevance in today's sports world as well. The teams that can afford the best players (ie. New York Yankees) usually have successful seasons.
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