[extropy-chat] Article on transhumanism on the leadingItalian weekly magazine Panorama

[Gina Miller]

Is this article in English somewhere? 

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Damien Broderick 
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  Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:10 AM
  Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Article on transhumanism on the leadingItalian weekly magazine Panorama


  At 07:22 PM 3/9/2005 +0100, GP wrote:

  >No rational argument against [uploading], more like a subliminal appeal to
  >reacting instiictively against, but the article is not that bad you
  >know.

  Okay, but what I'm wondering is *what* they mean by `uploading the mind', 
  and why they disapprove? Is the `Yuck' factor--`Oh, how creepy, a brain in 
  a vat!'

  Or doubts about continuous identity throughout the transfer--`That's not 
  Kenny, it's just a copy... and the bastards have *killed* Kenny!' (I'd go 
  along with that one, usually.)

  Or `It's unnatural! Stop it!'

  If the latter, why is this any different from their deciding that 
  homosexuality, or education for women, or eating cabbages, is disgusting, 
  unnatural, and awful even to think about?

  Damien Broderick 


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