On 4/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:brian@posthuman.com">brian@posthuman.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've interacted with him a little bit, and find him to be worth chatting with.<br>He may be slightly uninformed in some transhumanist culture areas, but in other<br>areas he knows quite a lot, and can provide some insights. He's heavily into
<br>philosophy, which alas I am not well equipped to delve into.<br>
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After a round of conversation after my reply to the original, I'll
second that; he doesn't seem to be advocating suppressing progress per
se, while I don't agree with everything he says, I think his view is
more complex and more worth engaging in detail than that.<br>