[ExI] The Manifesto of Italian Transhumanists

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estropico wrote:
> > Italy (like any other country) is unique. Part of its "uniqueness" is
> > the presence of the Vatican and the power of catholic institutions.

Bryan wrote: 
> What power? Money? They certainly don't have supercomputers, they don't 
> have massive research institutions, they don't have neurofarms, the 
> only power they have is lots of listeners and a widely distributed 
> mental program. What does this power have to do with transhumanism?

An important connection, in the past, between the Vatican and a 'sort' 
of transhumanism, was the 'monitum' you can read in the following page
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/dechardin.txt

A famous dictum says that the opposite of a profound belief may well 
be another profound belief. I tend to agree, with Fabio, in that 
the fight 'transhumanism vs. church' is not on the top of the 
reasonable priorities.

As Amara wrote, in another thread, 67 physicists of Rome university
'La Sapienza' (and among them the Dirac medalist Parisi) wrote a letter
about and against the Pope giving a speech in that university. 
Unfortunately the papers published that letter. The Pope did
not go there. Popularity of prof. Ratzinger reached the top.
 
s.