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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is anyone familiar with Affordance Theory (Gibson 1986). I am applying it to the environment of life expansion (life extension + whole brain emulation). It is an interesting theory used in the design discipline (engineering/industrial design/design) and provides an locus for perceiving what could be before us, whether known or unknown, as a relationship between the actor (human in my thesis) and technology (such as HCI) as the prospect of being afforded (*not* in a monetary sense, but in relation to melioristic aims).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Natasha<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More</span></a><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chairman, Humanity+ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ExDir, Design ESM <emerging / speculative media><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PhD Researcher, Univ. of Plymouth, UK<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Editor, <i>The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary <br>Essays on the Science, Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>