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

[Alfio Puglisi]

Nope. This Google translation's link is almost readable:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.panorama.it%2Fscienze%2Fscoperte%2Farticolo%2Fix1-A020001029603&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Don't know why google is obsessed with women. "morte" (=death) is
translated as "dead women", while "Casa Bianca" (=White House) is
translated as "white woman" :-)

Alfio

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Gina Miller wrote:

>Is this article in English somewhere?
>
>G`
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Damien Broderick
>  To: ExI chat list
>  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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