[ExI] Wrestling with Embodiment

Amon Zero amon at doctrinezero.com
Wed Feb 1 08:50:14 UTC 2012


On 1 February 2012 08:49, Amon Zero <amon at doctrinezero.com> wrote:

> On 1 February 2012 00:10, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> If we got rid of depression, anger, sadness, melancholy, fatigue,
>> bitchiness, sarcasm, fear, inattentiveness, frustration, boredom and
>> all the other wonderful negative emotions, could you really call what
>> you ended up with human in any sense of the word?
>>
>> So what is lost if we reach a state of paradise on earth? Everything.
>
>
>
> As much as I agree that we'd have to be extremely careful when
> "engineering out" evolutionarily adaptive emotions (such as disgust), from
> my point of veering
>


Point of view, even! Apologies.
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