Re: Are Extropians promoters of an ascetic ideal and alienation?

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 19:08:23 MDT

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    At 02:16 PM 8/3/03 -0700, Robert wrote:

    >[I disagree slightly with Natasha with regard to the specific
    >differences between extropianism, transhumanism and posthumanism
    >["the 3"] as I believe some fairly reasonable differences were outlined
    >recently at the World Transhumanis Association conference, esp.
    >during its introduction seminar. But these differences tend
    >to be *very* minor compared with the gap between "the 3" and most
    >other religions, philosophies, political or moral systems, etc.]

    Sorry, but you need to rethink this Robert. Extropy Institute prefers not
    to use "ism" for the extropian philosophy. Extropians are transhumanits
    and I never mentioned posthuman in my post.

    Natasha



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