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

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Not sure if you have ever read these stories, but even if not exactly
transhumanist in theme, they talk about how existence can embody different
forms and places, in the vast cosmic play. I think somebody should write
similar stories to describe how consciousness would be embodied in higher
forms of being as the universal saga continues from existing all crowded in
One Point at the Big Bang times to the time we will play with galaxies like
if they were chips on the cosmic casino: here the complete Italo Calvino 's
Cosmicomics:
http://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:29 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>… Behalf Of *Giovanni Santostasi
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting****
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> >…Next project is to write a transhumanist version of Italo Calvino
> Cosmic-Comics.****
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> The critics should not be the only ones that can laugh at our expenses we
> should laugh about ourselves too.   Giovanni****
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> Giovanni, I had to look up your reference to Italo Calvino, and saw he is
> a comedian of some sort.  I have been thinking of comedy as a vehicle for
> ideas.  Your reference reminded me of a brilliant comic strip character we
> had here in the early 90s, Calvin and Hobbes.  The strip ended 17 years
> ago, but I still see people reading the complied books to this day.
> Watterson introduced plenty of thought-provoking ideas through those
> characters.  Cartooning seems like such a terrific way of aiding meme
> penetration.****
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> spike****
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