[ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Next project is to write a transhumanist version of Italo Calvino
Cosmic-Comics.
The critics should not be the only ones that can laugh at our expenses we
should laugh about ourselves too.

Giovanni



On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Giovanni Santostasi
<gsantostasi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Beautiful article, Natasha.
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> But to be honest I really have nostalgia for the times when I was an
> unicellular organism. Life was so simple and symmetric at that time. I was
> almost perfectly round, and I didn't know left from right, with all the
> political and existential tension that these terms can bring.
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> My beautiful and elegant body was without sensory or motor organs but the
> currents in the water were carrying me around in an exciting, ever
> changing unforeseeable swirling existence. A real dance of life.
>
> I was bumping into food and that was such a blessing, and even if went
> hungry at times, I didn't really care because I had not a nervous system to
> experience such negative sensation.
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> Now, I have to actually, not really hunt my food, but at a minimum lift my
> butt from the chair to go to a refrigerator and do the effort to open it
> and look for eatable stuff in it (not always simple).
>
> I never understood these multi-cellular cultist that wanted to do the next
> "step" in evolution.
>
> Such beautiful life the life of a bacterium.
>
> Giovanni
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>wrote:
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>> She is another negative, but at least somewhat civil voice. A couple of
>> years ago she claimed transhumanists don’t dance, like our bodies, enjoy
>> senses, etc.  Here is my response to her claims:
>> http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090610/****
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>> *From:* extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:
>> extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On Behalf Of *Giovanni
>> Santostasi
>> *Sent:* Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:45 PM
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>> *To:* ExI chat list
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting****
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>> And what is with this  Athena Andreadis<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/andreadis/>,
>> why she is making a big deal about Giulio's views on women? Where do he
>> says anything disparaging against women in the reference she gives? Is she
>> a friend or ally? She publishes on IEET. ****
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>> What is her problem?****
>>
>> Giovanni****
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>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ****
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>> I don't really dislike him, he writes fun and often interesting
>> (other) things. He dislikes us all though, without distinctions.****
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>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>> >> Appologizes for posting this icky link that someone forwarded to me:
>> >>
>> >> <
>> http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/how-write-your-transhumanist-article-helpful-guide-for-more-profitable-prophesyin
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>> >> I don't have it in me to read it or respond to it, but some of you
>> might.
>> >
>> > I dunno... I found it mildly humorous, although his logic is
>> > admittedly pretty weak. I guess the rest of you have history with him
>> > that taints how you see what he writes in this particular instance...
>> > Must be a pretty lame guy for all of you great people to dislike him.
>> > :-)
>> >
>> > -Kelly
>> >
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