>From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Rebuild the World Trade Center
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:10:09 -0700
>
>From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> > we really
> > need to debug the fight or flight response.
>
>Best comment on this thread so far, and I would add that we need to
>displace
>the fight or flight response with responsive intelligence. That would
>involve
>removing a large chunk of what it means to be human, and replacing it with
>a
>transhuman sub-system. This could involve drug therapy for millions, or it
>could mean displacing human intelligence with machine intelligence.
>Whatever
>it takes, it is necessary to remove the part of human intelligence which
>causes the religious fanaticism that resulted in the September 11, 2001
>atrocity.
Umm...he is referring to OUR hormonal responses to the terrorism, of which
your reply is a very good example :-)
We should NOT go to war. We do however need to thwart Bin Ladin, et al., but
not by giving them the war they desire. Instead, we should infiltrate and
assassinate.
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