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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>Stefano
Vaj<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 15, 2010 6:25 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ExI chat
list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ExI] Towards a new transhumanist
movement.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 14 October 2010 18:53, Natasha Vita-More <SPAN
dir=ltr><natasha@natasha.cc></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>A human being must have control over his/her right of body,
brain and mind<BR>and no one should coerce any human to
evolve/morph/upload.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>This makes me think of another
important point.<BR><BR>I suspect that everybody is forced to evolve/morph, OK,
not upload, irrespective of what we may think of it, and always has been since
the birth of life, and probably, albeit more metaphorically, even before. There
is simply no way that even human humans may remain "just the same" for any
substantial length of time.<BR><BR>A big issue, however, remains the fact of
whether we are allowed to evolve and morph along (possibly) diverging lines, or
we are instead threatened by some forced (or even enforced) reduction of
diversity.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Stefano Vaj<BR></BODY></HTML>