[extropy-chat] Singularity Blues

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:41:07AM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> The payoff?  I am not posthuman but I imagine it might include simply 
> the sense of repayment and satisfaction of helping one's root/parent 
> species continue and evolve to the maximal extent it or its members 
> can.

We don't seem to be repaying that kindness in full though
http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.html
with some (very few) notable exceptions.

I'm also interested in the origin of those warm fuzzy feelings.

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