<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 23, 2009, at 2:32 PM, John Grigg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Damien Broderick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Most of the people posting here seem to have no notion how depraved it is to speak of human bodies as "meat".<br> <br>I wish you'd all get over this nerdish affectation.<br><br>Meat is dead, hacked-up flesh. My body isn't meat, it's me, and yours isn't meat either. It's a living person. The jeering philistinism of calling our bodies "meat" reminds me of insensitive oafs who disdain van Vogh's paintings as "daubing" or Shakespeare as a "scribbler".<br> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Thank you, Damien. I remember a conversation I had in the Immortality Institute chatroom where a 19 year-old guy told me he couldn't wait to escape his meatsicle body! Only 19 and in good health... Yes, we need some of that Enlightenment era love and admiration of the human body.</div> <div> </div> <div>My own view of transhumanism is about developing technology to perfect the power and beauty of the flesh and form we have now. A century hence people will have beauty and vitality that Renaissance era sculptors and painters could only dream about. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Not very interesting to me personally. Oh, I would put on various human bodies as the mood struck me but I would consider it failure to be limited to only one or even to only classical human form, no matter how healthy and beautiful.</div><div><br></div><div>- samantha</div><div><br></div></body></html>