[ExI] Question from a neophyte

[natasha at natasha.cc]

I meant to write Second Life (although Section Life could be a term  
for copying segments of the brain's memory).

Quoting natasha at natasha.cc:

> John wrote:
>
>
>> I remember being in a Immortality Institute chatroom where a *19* year-old
>> young man went on and on about how he wanted to "get rid of his damn meat
>> body and be uploaded!"  Transhumanist body image problems, anyone??
>
> Not at all!  I enjoy sports too much.  Sure, I've gotten on in the
> years and work to retard as much aging as possible, but I have no
> interest in being a bodiless thingy when there could be so many, many
> possible alternatives to bodily design - shape, consistency, material,
> transparency, etc.  As a very basic example which are rather mundane
> but at least are imaginative, just look at some of the marvelous body
> designs in Section Life.  My dear friend Elif Ayiter designs amazing
> entity forms.
>
> www.flickr.com/people/alpha_auer/
> www.citrinitas.com/
> mutamorphosis.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/elif-ayiter/
> visualcomplexity.com
>
> While a biological body is so 20th Century, that doesn't mean that a
> body is passe.
>
> Best to you John,
> Natasha
>
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