From: "Nick Bostrom" <nick@nickbostrom.com>
> Our emotions are a central part of our identity, so thinking about
> technological ways of changing them might be scary, and we should
> definitely be careful. But ultimately, I'm sure that even this barrier
will
> be broken (provided we don't go extinct first).
If we're bored enough, I suppose not even the prospect of going extinct
could dissuade us from diving into drugs, and that in turn, could get old
and boring too.
τΏτ
--J. R.
http://www.shasta.com/jr
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