Meet The Man Who Wants To Know What Life’s Like As A Goat

One man is investigating what life is like as a goat…by attempting to live among them. Thomas Thwaites commissioned limb prosthetics that allowed him to walk on all fours in relative comfort. He even considered ordering to have an artificial goat stomach which would digest grass for him to consume. Thwaites was able to persuade a goat farmer to allow him to join a herd of goats over the Swiss Alps.

 

He told Motherboard: ‘I was able to keep up for maybe a kilometre or so on this migration down the side of this kind of rocky mountain, and then they just left me in the dust. ‘So I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up to them. And eventually I found them again, and it was quite nice, in the actual soft grassy pasture bit. But actually heading down the mountain was petrifying. Because if I fell I didn’t have any hands to stop me from hitting a rock.’

Why is he doing it, you ask?
Thwaites is a British conceptual designer interested in how humans will use technology to fulfil their desires. He claims that people are always interested in becoming more intelligent and stronger but could be interested in simplifying their lives through a simulated devolution.
Thwaites said: ‘Posthumanism, transhumanism technology and stuff, is about allowing humans to achieve their desires in a way.
‘And I guess [some people’s] desires aren’t necessarily to become super intelligent.’
Well, if nothing else – it’s certainly an unique approach.
If you are interested to learn more Thwaites has written a book entitled ‘GoatMan How I Took a Holiday from Being Human’.

Source: Metro UK