Re: A vision

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 09:23:35 MDT

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    At 01:29 PM 7/14/03 +0200, Anders wrote:

    >Yes, I agree with Hal about the spread of Mind as the big goal,
    >Giulio was right in his interpretation. The vastening of mind
    >is my real motivation as a transhumanist. But I wanted to write
    >something a bit different from the usual Moravec-Stapledon
    >scenario of converting everything into a substrate for thinking
    >things. It has already been done, but people constantly ask the
    >important questions "But what are they thinking *about*? What
    >use is all this thinking?". The real answers to these questions
    >is of course "Anything!" and "What use if life?"

    I love the poetic realism of your vision Anders.

    Natasha



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