<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 February 2012 12:07, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I for one want whatever comes after us (or that we evolve into) to<br>
maintain an element of humanity (the ethical part, not necessarily the<br>
people themselves) in the sense that there are genuine emotions<br>
involved. </blockquote><div><br>Let me put it this way, which I consider the inevitable H+ POV: we used to be (kind of) reptiles. <br><br>Those reptilian ancestors may well have thought fondly of the importance of maintaining the core of reptilianity in their successors. <br>
<br>After a fashion, we did, since we fully partake of that legacy. But we have also moved over. Including in "ethical" and "emotional" terms. To consider posthumanity in human terms is a contradiction... in terms.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>