How would you Design a Humanoid ?

[Sy Borg]

Machines don't need genocide. That all humans on Earth will die is guaranteed. The oceans will have boiled away after one billion years. In five billion years the Sun will be a red giant that will engulf the planet.

Have you had thoughts about how the process of digitisation will happen? One small part of the brain at a time? If so, that would result in an extended period of varying levels of cyborgism. That will make for "interesting" societies!

I think an intermediate period of varying levels of Cyborgism is certainly a possibility.

Not only will the Earth eventually die but the whole Universe is headed towards eventual dissolution by the Big Crunch or the Big Freeze.

The time scale of the latter is inconsequential.

A thousand years seems like a age to us - mediaeval times. A million years ago, Homo sapiens did not exist, and instead earlier hominids like Homo heidelbergensis, the first hunters of big game, lived in Europe and Africa. A billion years ago there were microbes, algae and small-proto animals. A trillion years ago was about seven times longer ago than the Big Bang.

The universe will probably be able to support ever more advanced life and post-life for trillions of years (as red dwarf stars continue to shine) might as well be eternity.

But even Trillions of years is nothing compared to Eternity.

And?

[Alan Masterman]

I'd design it with gonads. Enormous, monstrous, unwashed balls.

[Alan Masterman]

And an enormous erection.

[Pattern-chaser]

...not with a propensity for philosophy, then?

[Alan Masterman]

Indeed sir, you mistake me (to quote some bard or other); with a truly Socratic capacity for philosophy, but a Rabelaisian capacity for sense-data...

[UniversalAlien]

Alan Masterman wrote:

I'd design it with gonads. Enormous, monstrous, unwashed balls.

And an enormous erection.

Indeed sir, you mistake me (to quote some bard or other); with a truly Socratic capacity for philosophy, but a Rabelaisian capacity for sense-data...

Still, unintended as it may be, you have hit upon some concepts worthy of further exploration.

1. In trying to design a sentient like android, will it be necessary to give it a sexual identity for Human like functionality

2. Can an asexual machine be Human like

3. Might it be more practical to create the machines as a sort of transgender like

You see they are already creating biological females {as so identified by themselves} with male gonads who seem capable of functioning as a new sex - What type of sexual identity should a sentient like android have
Will it too require a special sex classification and function

Many will say this is not a significant issue in android evolution - And perhaps, I say, you do not understand biological evolution
and how it with sex is involved in progression of species



One more point while we are on the subject of sex and androids.

There is a large 'sex bot' industry that is attempting to design sex partners for Humans - And even though you may trivialize this as just being a more advanced sex toy - it may also lead, if studied by science and engineering, to the development of a more realistic
'touchy-feely' android that can eventually equal and maybe even surpass the biological Human
- Evolulution does not stand still and sex is still a vital component

[Sy Borg]

I'd design it with gonads. Enormous, monstrous, unwashed balls.

Why unwashed?