Re: Thinking the unthinkable: taboos and transhumanism

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 21:46:07 MDT

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    From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:52 PM
    Subject: RE: Thinking the unthinkable: taboos and transhumanism

    > Rafal contributes
    >
    > > On page 42 of the article (" Tetlock, P.E., Kristel, O., Elson, B.,
    Green,
    > > M., and Lerner, J (final revision process/2000). The psychology of the
    > > unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical
    > > counterfactuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"), I
    > > found the following:
    >
    > So this is not on-line anywhere?

    ### http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/social/tetlock/rsch2.htm, top of page.

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    >
    > > "Greenberg et al.'s (1994) terror-management theory posits that people
    who
    > > how my long process of psychological self-modification
    > > could lead to the almost complete removal of the three
    > > Fiskean schemata from my mind,
    >
    > What are these, and how does one tell if he's been successful
    > at their removal?

    ### Fiske, Alan P. 1992. The Four Elementary Forms of Sociality: Framework
    for a Unified Theory of Social Relations. Psychological Review 99:689-723

    By removal of the schemata from my mind I meant more of a removal of such
    considerations from my ethical models, rather from everyday interactions
    with other people (that could be quite a problem in the maintenance of
    relationships).

    Rafal

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