Dude Gets Arm Replaced Just Like Luke Skywalker

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9 points·chaostheory··5 comments

Apparently this is not the first time:

i-LIMB bionic hand approaches 100 fittings http://www.gizmag.com/i-limb-bionic-hand/8733/

Not a lot of meat here, anyone have some background?

Technology introduces another dilemma for people of faith. To know God, we become God.

I am confused - how do robotic prosthetic limbs relate to faith or any deity? Furthermore, in the possibility that there is a god, what does furthering human knowledge and easing human suffering have to do with knowing or becoming god? Just kinda confused on this sentiment.

All in all, I think that the limb appears to be promising - their website (http://www.touchbionics.com/index.php) has some interesting literature and examples of the product. What will be interesting is when the feedback from these devices more accurately mimics "real feeling".

Let's just couch it as an intellectual exercise - no assault on religions or followers intended.

Having said that, people of faith spend varying degrees of time trying to know some deity, through study, meditation, revelation, whatever. What I'm suggesting is that technology, and even more so, the human urge that drives it, might yield the same result that people of faith want to reach, except that this technology-driven result is probably not what they expected.

How will people of faith rationalize what the soul is, if we don't need it anymore? It's been replaced by something new and improved, along with our internal organs, limbs, etc.

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