HUMAN GENETIC DRIFT, BONE STRUCTURE, was Re: Politics, Extropians

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 19:32:44 MST


Steve Nichols wrote:

> Sorry to have to butt in every now and then on the cosy, Extropian world
> view,

Oh, never mind. I had to get up to read the mail anyway.

> but events move quickely and have clearly overtaken "transhuman" philosophy
> in all of its forms.

All? An extraordinary claim.

> No one picked up on my posting about "archeological" evidence
> we are already posthuman, but never mind.

Perhaps we were all in awe of its depth and irrefutability.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This sounded just a little bit
like a Claude Degler fugue to me.

-- 
 MMB<==butler a t comp - lib . o r g   Wm. Burroughs said it best: "After a shooting 
    spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
  I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. And you?


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