[extropy-chat] Confronting our younger selves (was: Superrationality)

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

It is not like our ability to dream dies when we are 25. We keep
evolving, and so do our dreams. I am basically the same person I was
at 25, but I have different dreams now, some related to the things we
discuss on this list. My current dreams make more sense to the current
me.
The only thing that I have really lost is physical energy and stamina.
Looking forward to biotech to fix that.
G.

On 5/20/06, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> Hal Finney
> >How many of us might be more motivated to follow through on our
> >commitments, plans and dreams, if we could somehow be confronted by
> >our younger selves and called to account for how we had lived our
> >lives?
>
> http://www.amara.com/aboutme/dialoguewmy22self.html
>
> Oh, I'm motivated. Still I have made what could be dreadful mistakes
> on particular paths. Paths that I was thinking were exactly following
> my dreams, when in reality, I lost the strength to take good care of
> myself. I hope the mistakes were not too dreadful, though, and that I
> can still do something about those dreams.
>
> The URL above is the result of an interaction about 1.5 years ago when
> someone, an artist, who I didn't know very well, offered to sketch me
> a picture of myself from a photograph. The photograph needed to be
> black and white, high quality. It was interesting exercise from both
> sides because I decided to give him a 21 year old photograph.
>
> On his side, he knew that he had a 21 year old photograph and needed
> to give a personality of the present person projected onto a picture
> of someone from the past. I told him he was free to project who and
> what he wanted.
>
>  From my side, I wanted to look into the eyes of my 22 year old self
> and have a dialog with her. When that sketch arrived about one week
> later, I framed it and hung it on my wall so I could talk to her.
>
> It's not easy talking to my younger self. I don't know the answer yet
> if I have done well in following some of her dreams, but I think I'm
> trying.
>
> Amara
>
> --
>
> Amara Graps, PhD      www.amara.com
> Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Roma, ITALIA
> Associate Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson
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