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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here is my admitt<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>edly meager contribution to Transhumanism a la Max More, Nick Bostrum, et. al.:</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"If I define myself by what I am, then I lock myself into obsolete self-knowledge and <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>restrict my ability to adapt and evolve. If I define myself by what I am constantly becoming from moment to moment, then I constantly adapt and evolve. If I define myself correctly, then I control my own evolution."</FONT></div></SPAN>
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<div><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Stuart LaForge</FONT></div>
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<DIV><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.</FONT></DIV></div></body></html>