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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this article in English somewhere? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>G`</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=thespike@satx.rr.com href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">Damien
Broderick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:10
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Article on
transhumanism on the leadingItalian weekly magazine Panorama</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 07:22 PM 3/9/2005 +0100, GP wrote:<BR><BR>>No rational
argument against [uploading], more like a subliminal appeal to<BR>>reacting
instiictively against, but the article is not that bad
you<BR>>know.<BR><BR>Okay, but what I'm wondering is *what* they mean by
`uploading the mind', <BR>and why they disapprove? Is the `Yuck' factor--`Oh,
how creepy, a brain in <BR>a vat!'<BR><BR>Or doubts about continuous identity
throughout the transfer--`That's not <BR>Kenny, it's just a copy... and the
bastards have *killed* Kenny!' (I'd go <BR>along with that one,
usually.)<BR><BR>Or `It's unnatural! Stop it!'<BR><BR>If the latter, why is
this any different from their deciding that <BR>homosexuality, or education
for women, or eating cabbages, is disgusting, <BR>unnatural, and awful even to
think about?<BR><BR>Damien Broderick
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