Re: Thinking the unthinkable: taboos and transhumanism

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 20:28:58 MDT

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    At 11:00 AM 8/9/03 -0400, Rafal wrote:

    >Only the iconoclastic Skoptsy and Shakers contributed to today's gene pools.

    But the traditionalists, who declined to propagate their genes, left
    powerful memes, as your post demonstrates (since you remember and share
    news of them). Such meme remnants might yet serve as the seed for a new
    memetic attractor. (I first learned of the Skoptsy sect when I was 14 and
    read Alfred Bester's extrapolation of their cult in THE STARS MY
    DESTINATION; his version is a sort of horrifying dark side of the uploading
    scenario...)

    Damien Broderick



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