Re: Changing ones mind

From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 23:48:26 MST

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    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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