From: JAY DUGGER (duggerj1@charter.net)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 17:07:13 MDT
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:13, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> The Allknowing detected this for me:
> http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030829/CONUHUMAN29/TPTechnology
>
> How perfect do we want to be?
>
> In seeking immortality and other godlike attributes,
> we risk our very humanity, says ethicist MARGARET
> SOMERVILLE
>
> At least a pleasantly non-shrill tone of criticism, and I
> think it is worth considering what our answer to her ought
> to be.
>
Why respond? The piece at the URL above makes it
seem as if the author thinks mysteries have some merit and
deserve preserving. I've thought about it for three days,
and my inital response holds: to hell with
everyone who worships ignorance.
As for what kind of world vastly extended life
makes--immortality
features in most ideas about "life-after-death", whether
one pictures
salvation, damnation, or reincarnation. Effort now by
everyone can help
make our collective future worthwhile.
It would please me better to have some less
vituperative suggestion,
but I've nothing else to offer.
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