On 3/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com">lcorbin@tsoft.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm sure that I speak for many when I say that my immortal<br>purposes involve doing away with my genes altogether. So<br>it doesn't matter what *my* purposes are. The important<br>question is "Have the human genes made a TERRIFIC mistake,
<br>not only in immolating themselves, but in destroying all<br>DNA on Earth?" Most likely answer is "Yes, they have."<br>Because the odds are very against humanity just simply<br>puttering along in its present bio-form for much longer.
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And there I disagree. The odds were always against that, and are
especially so if we fail to reach Singularity; and if nothing else, the
sun would autoclave the biosphere in a few hundred million years
anyway. I don't care so much about the technology of information
storage on deoxyribonucleic acid per se, but if I have any say in the
matter (which I may not, but the odds are at least a little better than
if we'd never come down from the trees), the essential part of the
information carried in our genes will outlive the stars themselves.
Doesn't sound like a mistake to me.<br>