From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 18:50:01 MST
> Amara Graps wrote:
>
> > It's a common idea for people not familiar with the naturist ideas
> > to think that it is about how one looks without clothes. That's
> > a mistake, though. It's about being comfortable inside one's body.
> >
> > Consider this: if one can't accept their human body (accepting
> > 'what is' comes before choosing to make changes), do you think
> > that they can accept their transhuman body? The answer is No.
> >
> ..Oh so you have to have a _body_ to be a transhumanist now, do you?
> Nobody told _me_ : )
> AR
Well, the corporeals will try to convince you that it is so. I suspect that
there are a large group of brain-in-jar transhumanists (such as myself), who
don't really grok all this stuff about body augmentation/upgrading, except
where it is necessary for enhancing cognitive life (as if there is any other
kind).
Personally, I find the concept of Body to be far too limiting. In some more
generic sense, there is me, and there are inputs and ouputs which I can
access. Being stuck with a body is being stuck with a constant and limited
set of tools. I'd rather be able to connect to I/O devices as necessary
(avatar robots in situ, telescopes, nanosensors, assemblers, what have you),
presumably within the confines of my finances. Hmm, that could conceivably
suck quite badly; in the future, you could be replacing homeless people with
bodiless people; a kind of techno-wraith denied access to any interaction
with the physical world, due to the inability to pay.
Emlyn
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