[extropy-chat] Will we all choose to become one mind only?

[Russell Wallace]

On 4/26/07, TheMan <mabranu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Are we all going to become one, when singularity
> comes, so that there will be no political and moral
> issues anymore, just one mind, a mind that always
> knows what it wants, goes for what it wants and
> nothing else, and never fights with itself?
>
> I'm thinking we might all choose to become something
> like one of those clusters of human minds called "the
> joined", described in Clarke/Baxter: "The light of
> other days", joined also with AI of course (and why
> not with the minds of all the animals as well!).
>

I can answer that one very easily: I don't choose to become any such thing,
so that's a counterexample to the "all" conjecture :)
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