[extropy-chat] You must be willing to give up everything (2nd try)

[Robert Bradbury]

On 11/2/06, Michael M. Butler <mmbutler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Harry Palmer is not Elron, not by a long chalk.


Of course, he does not have the Vilya ring.  If one takes steps back from
all of this (xyzzyCo) one can wonder whether their might be some unique
combination of human traits (a leader?)  [1] or discovered
compu-bio-synthetics (hopefully implantable) that will eventually lead us to
true "self-actualization" (for lack of a better term)  Of course this gets
all messed up by the copies one has pursuing different future vectors and
the problem of reintegration of self-derivatives.  Tolkien did not
anticipate this or chose to ignore it.

Robert

1. And for the readers, I am not anticipating this happening.  The unique
combination of memes that would have to be manifested in a single human
could indeed be labeled as a "miracle".
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