What It Means To Be Human Research Paper

As time passes, and as technology advances, the importance of humans becomes diminished more and more. This is seen in our day-to-day lives on a regular basis, even on small scales. What is the point in remembering who the 22nd President of the United States was when you can simply ask Siri instead? Why is learning how to spell a word so important if your computer will put a squiggly red line under it and correct it for you with a simple click? These questions sound trivial in the grand scheme of things, but I view it as the beginning of the end of humans. It has become evident that we are soon to be unneeded and that there is little meaning left in being a human. Ex Machina, Blade Runner, and A Scanner Darkly are fine films, however they are also quite frightening when considering what existence and purpose for humans is, let alone what it really means to be human and how all of these things are dwindling.
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Dr. Tyrell in Blade Runner seemed to have no problem figuring out how to create replacements for us. The replicants Rachael, Roy, Zhora, Leon, and Pris were only given a life-span of four years due to technological limits, but the fact that they were able to be created so life-like and capable of a much higher level of functioning than humans is astonishing. They were all stronger than us humans, capable of emotion, and clearly able to win a battle of wits in some of the fight scenes. The only thing differentiating them from humans were the Turing tests. However, if real world scientists already know how to clone animals through nuclear transfer, who is to say we can 't clone humans? Additionally, if we were somehow able to put all that we already know about the creation of convincing, virtual artificial intelligence in computers into these clones, is it possible that we could turn them into something greater than Tyrell quality replicants that can live much