[extropy-chat] Call for contributions: "Intro to H+" book

[Samantha Atkins]

Why would i want a human body or something that remotely resembles one 
if I am truly posthuman and thus most of my needs and interests are no 
longer best served by such a form?   I would only don such a grossly 
limited form on a whim or due to some temporary need.   Our squishy 
sentimentalism toward our current form is symptomatic of much that 
makes it unlikely that more than a handful of originally human 
sentients will ever become truly posthuman.

-s

On Jan 28, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Diego Caleiro wrote:

>
>  In a posthuman world, would we really need clothes?
>
> suppose that we keep antropomorphic, in this case, the religious 
> beleifs of
> sin will have died out, and nobody would need to use clothes for this
> reason...    the cold weather would affect us much less, since we 
> could have
> heat controls in our body, no need for clothing.
>
> If we do not choose to be antropomorphic, as most people here say we 
> won't,
> then we woul be able to change our shape faster then the fashion could 
> create
> clothes for us....
>
> Diego (Log At)
>
>
>
> Em Sexta 28 Janeiro 2005 23:36, Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc. 
> escreveu:
>> Given human past tendancies to exterminate those who have some
>> difference in outward appearance it would be best if a poshuman would 
>> be
>> like a camelion.... keep a relatively human appearance while in the
>> company of the old-style humans and transhumans in public and adopt  a
>> more unique appearance in private.
>>
>> Alternatively generate a hologram  to customize outward appearances  
>> to
>> the percieved comfort level of the observer.  Essentially clothes 
>> could
>> be replaced by a hologram to mask  more functional body function and
>> body maintence suits.
>>
>> Diego Caleiro wrote:
>>> That depends on what do you mean by posthumanism, if you were talking
>>> about what most people would choose to look like, in, say 500 years, 
>>> then
>>> probably yes, there would be a difference between the human body and 
>>> the
>>> post human.
>>>
>>> But the definition of posthuman is simply a matter of enhanced 
>>> human, and
>>> it is possible to enhance yourself keeping your external appearence. 
>>> As
>>> most tranhumanist would agree, each person should have his right to 
>>> not
>>> change his appearence, if so he wishes.
>>>
>>> Diego (Log At)
>>>
>>> Em Sexta 28 Janeiro 2005 13:47, Ned Late escreveu:
>>>> However transhumanism is the precursor to posthumanism, and wouldn't
>>>> posthumanism be a rejection of the human body as we know it?
>>>>
>>>>> Hara Ra <harara at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>> But some of us like our bodies, and see transhumanism as an 
>>>>> extension of
>>>>> humanity, not a rejection of the body.....
>>>>
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