[extropy-chat] A brief transhuman life, anyone?

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Rick <aperick at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Which is it for you, avoiding death? Or,
> transcending the issues and limits
> of a naturally evolved lifestyle? Resist the urge to
> not face the question
> and claim they are equal, you must pick one. 

Sorry, but THEY ARE EQUAL.  To pretend that the
decision between the two is a question that makes any
sense is to misunderstand what exactly a transhumanist
life is.  It's like choosing between getting in the
water and getting wet (in the normal sense - i.e., if
you wear a wetsuit then go in the water, water's still
on your suit, so you are still "wet").  One can get
wet without going in water; one can live a while
without >H stuff happening.  But one can not go in the
water without getting wet; to live a transhumanist
lifestyle includes doing things that are likely to
extend your life - possibly as a byproduct, possibly
on purpose.

For example: upload to a computer but your running
process will disentigrate after 20 years?  Then you've
got 20 years of greatly increased intelligence to find
a way to stop that - and there are quite a few ways we
know would work already, mainly variations on backups.
To claim "they just wouldn't work" is like claiming
that gravity "just wouldn't work".

Again, apologies for having to point this out, but to
even ask the question is to misunderstand what a
transhumanist is.  There are questions, like this,
where "none of the above" is the only correct answer.