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<P><FONT SIZE=2>In the future transhuman age, if you can change whatever (including the genes, or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>so-called neuronal editor, or even your face/personal characters etc.) you want, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>then what makes you still the unique you?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Walter.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Hara Ra</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:27 PM</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> ... There is a whole selection of levels of plasticity, from </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> recalling a new phone number to my genes. As far as I can tell, some levels </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> get installed in early babyhood and that's it. As a cryonicist, I hope to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> get a neuronal editor and eventually make changes which cannot be done at </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the present.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Though it is very hard to really realize when something is basically </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> hardwired, there is also a kind of liberation - there is no need to try </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> changing things one lacks tools for. I can focus my limited energy in the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> possible. I hope the cryonics will work, so the possible is larger.</FONT>
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