From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 23:48:26 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Ok, I'm going to bring up a topic and may get thrown
> back into the dust for doing so but here goes.
>
> Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
> an actual example where due to the list discussion they
> "changed" their mind?
Changing ones mind, well mine at least, does not happen as a "click". I
know several instances where I have changed my mind gradually over the
years, or where I have learned something I didn't know before.
- I have become a convinced functionalist.
- I have realised that living is changing,
and only the dead stays static.
- I have become an "extreme" sceptic.
- I believe that the flesh is a short term solution.
- I belive that some kind of singularity is likely.
- I believe that superintelligence is likely.
- I have become less less liberalistic, due to the poor
arguments for libertarianism I have encountered here.
- I believe that the truth is allmost never in the extremes, but
somewhere in between.
- I have found that there is more differences between Europe and
the USA when there is no body language involved in the comunication.
- I have found that I am not the only one believing in crazy stuff.
There are probably many more items to put on the list. But those where
the most obvious ones.
Another thing I have noticed is that the longer I have been on the list,
the fewer new ideas i encounter. So the biggest impact on me was
probably in the first few years. But luckily there are still new ideas
popping up that makes it worthwile to stay on.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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