Humans are a Kluge
A kluge is a haphazard construction. The human spine is an example. When quadrupeds evolved
to stand erect, nature didn’t have the time to redesign the support system and the spine is a
problem for many people. Backaches are a number one complaint.
At what point in time will humans finally admit that the problems with the human body are so
numerous that we can use Engineering to Intelligently Design a better biped?
Should you let your mind get into the mode of “nature gave me this body and I must accept it”?
When will someone finally create an organization with a journal or magazine in which humans
discuss how fed up they are with what “God gave them”? When is it time to stop thanking God and
start to complain about the shoddy job of design? And what about these headaches and colds and
flu and jiminy criminies let us start a revolt…a movement…a rebellion. Let us make a pact that
our next generation of offspring will be better designed.
And how about a mind that cannot remember where we put the keys? You call that ‘a mind’? We
need to be reengineered to have a brain capable of dealing with modern life. Psychiatrists? That
is only a patch job due to a bad initial design. Exercise? That is because we evolved from
cavemen who ran around tossing spears at animals. Robots don’t need to get on treadmills and
run in place. What a waste of time. And why? Because the original design is an incredibly bad
piece of engineering. To claim that the human body is the result of God’s ‘Intelligent Design’ is to
insult the God you are trying to worship.
Think of more things and email them to me. How about those wisdom teeth? Was the designer
who gave them to you very wise? I think not.
Meanwhile some people are working on ‘Life Extension’. How about moving my brain into a
silicon-based robot which can talk to humans at a few words per minute or talk to another robot at
trillions of bits per second? Cheaper repair bills, no need to sleep, no backaches, no headaches…if
I catch a virus, I pay a few bucks for a virus scanner. No big deal.
Anyone want to join the movement?
don
A kluge is a haphazard construction. The human spine is an example. When quadrupeds evolved
to stand erect, nature didn’t have the time to redesign the support system and the spine is a
problem for many people. Backaches are a number one complaint.
At what point in time will humans finally admit that the problems with the human body are so
numerous that we can use Engineering to Intelligently Design a better biped?
Should you let your mind get into the mode of “nature gave me this body and I must accept it”?
When will someone finally create an organization with a journal or magazine in which humans
discuss how fed up they are with what “God gave them”? When is it time to stop thanking God and
start to complain about the shoddy job of design? And what about these headaches and colds and
flu and jiminy criminies let us start a revolt…a movement…a rebellion. Let us make a pact that
our next generation of offspring will be better designed.
And how about a mind that cannot remember where we put the keys? You call that ‘a mind’? We
need to be reengineered to have a brain capable of dealing with modern life. Psychiatrists? That
is only a patch job due to a bad initial design. Exercise? That is because we evolved from
cavemen who ran around tossing spears at animals. Robots don’t need to get on treadmills and
run in place. What a waste of time. And why? Because the original design is an incredibly bad
piece of engineering. To claim that the human body is the result of God’s ‘Intelligent Design’ is to
insult the God you are trying to worship.
Think of more things and email them to me. How about those wisdom teeth? Was the designer
who gave them to you very wise? I think not.
Meanwhile some people are working on ‘Life Extension’. How about moving my brain into a
silicon-based robot which can talk to humans at a few words per minute or talk to another robot at
trillions of bits per second? Cheaper repair bills, no need to sleep, no backaches, no headaches…if
I catch a virus, I pay a few bucks for a virus scanner. No big deal.
Anyone want to join the movement?
don
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