[ExI] Fwd: Wrestling with Embodiment

[Amon Zero]

On 1 Feb 2012, at 11:07, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am not a black and white thinker by any means. I'm more of an
> optimist than a pessimist, for what that's worth, but I think there
> will be plenty of challenges in any future I can conceive of. I do
> think that humanity has an endowment for whatever comes next, and I
> think it would be a real tragedy if they didn't get most of the gifts
> that we have to give them


You know, this may sound like a cop-out - hopefully the fact that it's
heartfelt will make up for that - but I completely agree with everything
you've said in reply. Good answer! ;-)

My only caveat would be that, I know you were talking about Christian
notions of heaven, but I think we need to be very careful about "hangovers"
from monotheist thought (as Stefano might say) unduly influencing rational
consideration of bio-engineering & Abolitionist ideas.

All the Best-
A



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