[extropy-chat] Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?

[Samantha Atkins]

It depends.   A technological rapture fills the bill of some religions 
rather nicely.  :-)

However, the polarization where one sees people like oneself as 
reasonable and everyone else as bloody weights on the human potential 
needs to be examined and if possible overcome long before we have the 
ability to upload anyone.

- s

On Nov 20, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally i hope we can get around such polarized positioning sooner
>> still.
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:30:45 -0500 (EST), Rik van Riel
>> <riel at surriel.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Hara Ra wrote:
>>>
>>>> I predict that in about 10 more years the Church of the
>>>> Immaculate Upload will come along.
>>>
>>> Ten years ?!
>>>
>>> I'd have hoped we could move the religious fanatics
>>> to a place where they can't harm us much sooner... ;)
>
> Oh my, are we making positive commentary about the forced uploading
> (i.e. genocide) of that majority of humanity that are devoutly
> religious? How very..... Bradburian of you....
>
> Of course, you are also essentially proposing that we put a couple
> billion intelligent religious viruses onto the world computer system.
> Great going guys, you just brought it all down...
>
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt (1759-1806)
> Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
>
>
> 		
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free!
> http://my.yahoo.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat