[extropy-chat] Physicians and Spirituality

[Russell Wallace]

On 6/23/05, Diego Caleiro <diegocaleiro at terra.com.br> wrote:
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> I beleive I would be right to metaforize our mind developed by evolution of
> old mind, meaning a designed mind is a better one. Therefore, I think the end
> of a mind like ours, with tendency to power, war, exceding vanity etc...
> would be a great thing to disapear.

Would you advocate blowing up the planet, then? Amounts to the same
thing: eliminate sentient life. (Actually, blowing up the planet would
be better; a nonsentient UFAI would gobble everything in .X of our
light cone, possibly eliminating chances for someone else to do
better. No, your "designed mind" isn't going to be sentient. If you
think otherwise, by all means explain how you propose to design a
sentient mind.)

> Isn't that one of the transhuman goals?

*shrug* What's a transhuman? It's not one of my goals, to put it mildly.

- Russell