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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Wildcat<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:50 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [ExI] A sort of
Introduction<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Not knowing what is the best way to introduce myself to this list on
which I have been lurking for a while, and being in contact with some of you
(Natasha, Max) it occurred to me that maybe my latest ultrashort scifi
story (a second project I am working upon beside the Polytopia Project) is an
interesting manner of introduction, so here goes:<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>“If one
doesn’t put one’s reason at stake in an experiment, the experiment is not worth
attempting.”<BR><BR>( Bachelard in “Le Surrationalisme”
(1936)<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>Presentation to the Titan board of AGI, Biorobotics, and
Other sentient life forms.<BR><BR>Dear members of the board,<BR><BR>As it is the
duty of every future officer of the board to present its conception of identity
and its epistemic profiles, I send you this photon-transmission as part of my CV
(which you already received and light stamped).<BR>I wish to use this particular
presentation as an explication of why I will require certain concessions as part
of my existential requirements. <BR><BR>Though I still inhabit a material
manifestation that is commonly referred to as ‘my body’, I do not regard this as
a ‘one size fits all’ proposition, therefore, though it is a factuality that I
‘have’ a body this in no fashion stands as the signifier of an identity.
<BR>Moreover though it is still true to a biological constraint that said body
has grown and evolved to carry a gender specification, in no fashion do I regard
this specificity to signify a gender that I carry as a state of mind.<BR>My
basic standpoint in this respect is that both enhancements and uploads are
viable options as well as mind transfer or biodiversified personification, I
consider all choices of modification, transformation and or mutation into other
species as equally valid under the freedom of individuation act of solar date,
march 2117.<BR><BR>To further explicate, it is also true that on the common
scheme of identification the above body was born in a certain location commonly
referred by most minds as a certain nation, having a legitimacy and validity of
existence and thus providing an identification of sorts, let it be said that I
do not regard this mind as identified in any such manner.<BR>Having thus
relinquished the common denominators of age, gender, nationality, race and
creed, all tools of designation the need for which has dissipated, the habit
that is ‘I’, is for purposes of this presentation an anticipation of
sorts.<BR><BR>I have for the purpose of this presentation re-cohered and re-
entangled the myriad personas that variously stand and represent said simulacra
of habits called ‘I’ into an apparent compounded interest. Since the respect and
regard I carry for the board is high indeed it is my desire to announce that in
no fashion will any bias of any sort imply upon my performance. All sub personas
I have created, limited sentiency notwithstanding, can and shall be immediately
deleted andor preserved for further assistance if such requirement will be
made.<BR><BR>For the benefit of full transparency let it be presented that all
semantic representations within said confined event of personhood can be
inspected at will and upon request, confirmed signature follows.<BR><BR>Moreover
since the realization of the full import of my future employment within the
board is tantamount to personhood modification I hereby grant the board of Titan
AGI, Biorobotics, and other sentient life forms, full and irrevocable permission
to mutate the undersigned to the extant of tolerance within the topologically
relevant needs. <BR><BR>The only requirement I propose the board to acknowledge
concerns the signature identity ‘Osran.V.2.17’, this is a particular persona
created in Oct. 2124 for the purpose of exploring a precise sensation of
correlativity within an emotional phase space, the overall expenditure of
intelligence and energy will be minimal and inconsequential to future job
performance (see extrapolated and predicted expenditure for ‘Osran.V.2.17’-
attached). <BR><BR>In the event of total transmutation as required by the board
or to the extent that Titan et al will so demand, ‘Osran.V.2.17’ will be stored
as compressed light data with a time stamp approval of no more than 150 solar
standard years.<BR><BR>Finally, to the extent that such request as presented
above is accepted, recycled and re-iterated by the board, all other personas are
ready to coagulate, integrate and or disassociate within a single solar date as
specified (commensurate unified signature attached).<BR><BR>Global Signature
confirmation<BR>346 Ken Landar personas (out of total of 347 - ‘Osran.V.2.17’
excluded.)<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>(originally published at <A
href="http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat/6179/Presentation-to-the-Titan-board-of-AGI-a-SciFi-Ultrashort"
target=_blank>Space Collective</A>
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color=#888888>--<BR>warm regards,<BR><BR>Tyger (a.k.a Friendfeed <A
href="http://friendfeed.com/wildcat" target=_blank>Wildcat</A>
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href="http://spacecollective.org/projects/Polytopia/" target=_blank>The
Polytopia Project</A>
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