[ExI] Question from a neophyte

[natasha at natasha.cc]

Woah!  That is really stretching Jeff!

Let's reel 'er back in a bit.  Max - want to explain morphological  
freedom, since you are its originator?

Natsha

Quoting Jeff Davis <heavensblade23 at gmail.com>:

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>> What is quite confusing to me is to have to defend my views concerning
>> the future human after I years in this area and have written, lectured
>> and designed a concept for a future human which is not sequestered to
>> a meat body (but does not denounce *a* body) and in fact, suggests
>> multiple shapes and substrates with which to house, if you will,
>> identity for the extension of personal identity over time and space.
>>
>> Be it that I do not favor Moravec specific design; it does not mean
>> that I am blind to the well-known transhumanist far future
>> noosphere-istic type environment that we have long discussed.
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> How does the concept of morphological freedom deal with issues like surgical
> addiction?
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> I ran into a surgical addict on a message board years ago and the pictures
> he posted of himself are not among my fondest memories.
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> Whether there's a distinction between implanting magnets under your
> fingertips and cutting chunks out of yourself because of mental
> illness depends on who you're talking to.
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> "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be
> other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be
> based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers.
> We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can
> oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."
> - William S. Burroughs
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