On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Jef Allbright <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I'm looking forward to receiving some word from the World<br>
Transhumanist Association regarding this apparently total lack of<br>
representation or involvement.<br>
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- Jef</blockquote><div><br>Hi Jeff,<br>Both James Hughes and I of the WTA Board attended the 2007 event at ASU on this topic. Neither of us could attend this year. <br><br>However, you can listen to a podcast of James' excellent 2007 talk at:<br>
<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/thwtv08/">http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/thwtv08/</a><br>(I just wish you could see his dynamite PowerPoint that accompanied the talk.)<br><br>James' talk was not universally admired, as you would expect with that basically hostile audience, but it was very well-received by some, changing a few minds, and garnering positive comments from several scientists in the audience, including John Tooby and Pascal Boyer. Also in attendance were Keith Henson and Arel Lucas.<br>
<br>Although it would have been good if we could have had an official WTA speaker at the 2008 event, we simply do not have the resources in our volunteer organization to send someone to every event we would like to. Thankfully, transhumanist-friendly theologian Ted Peters was there, as was our friend John Grigg. That counts for something.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Mike LaTorra<br>WTA Director of Communications<br></div></div><br>