[extropy-chat] Human - Posthuman gap (was: Spain has become the third country in Europe to legalise gay marriage)

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

So what? I enjoyed being a child, then grew out of it and enjoyed
being an adult even more.

On 4/27/05, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think the idea of the posthuman label is to denote an end to people
> > As We Know Them,
> > and TEOTWAWKI in general.
> >
> > For some strange reason, this is still controversial to some
> > transhumanists.
> >
> 
> Is it a "strange reason" that most of us enjoy being a person as we
> know them and are more than a bit put off by the notion that there may
> be no place for the majority of people around us in your apparent
> vision of a posthuman world?   Are we supposed to just go blindly full
> tilt forward with little or no care what happens to the world as we
> know it and its people?    If that is the view then I hope that it
> remains exceedingly controversial.
> 
> - samantha