Next project is to write a transhumanist version of Italo Calvino Cosmic-Comics.<div>The critics should not be the only ones that can laugh at our expenses we should laugh about ourselves too.</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div>
<div><br><div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Beautiful article, Natasha.<div><br></div><div>But to be honest I really have nostalgia for the times when I was an unicellular organism. Life was so simple and symmetric at that time. I was almost perfectly round, and I didn't know left from right, with all the political and existential tension that these terms can bring.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My beautiful and elegant body was without sensory or motor organs but the currents in the water were carrying me around in an exciting, ever changing unforeseeable swirling existence. A real dance of life. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I was bumping into food and that was such a blessing, and even if went hungry at times, I didn't really care because I had not a nervous system to experience such negative sensation. </div><div><br>
</div><div>Now, I have to actually, not really hunt my food, but at a minimum lift my butt from the chair to go to a refrigerator and do the effort to open it and look for eatable stuff in it (not always simple). </div><div>
<br></div><div>I never understood these multi-cellular cultist that wanted to do the next "step" in evolution. </div><div><br></div><div>Such beautiful life the life of a bacterium. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Giovanni</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Natasha Vita-More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc" target="_blank">natasha@natasha.cc</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She is another negative, but at least somewhat civil voice. A couple of years ago she claimed transhumanists don’t dance, like our bodies, enjoy senses, etc. Here is my response to her claims: </span><a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090610/" target="_blank">http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090610/</a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Giovanni Santostasi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:45 PM</span></p><div><br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting<u></u><u></u></div><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">And what is with this</span> <span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:white"><a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/andreadis/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none">Athena Andreadis</span></a>, why she is making a big deal about Giulio's views on women? Where do he says anything disparaging against women in the reference she gives? Is she a friend or ally? She publishes on IEET. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What is her problem?</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Giovanni</span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Giulio Prisco <<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don't really dislike him, he writes fun and often interesting<br>(other) things. He dislikes us all though, without distinctions.<u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Kelly Anderson <<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, <<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc" target="_blank">natasha@natasha.cc</a>> wrote:<br>>> Appologizes for posting this icky link that someone forwarded to me:<br>>><br>
>> <<a href="http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/how-write-your-transhumanist-article-helpful-guide-for-more-profitable-prophesyin" target="_blank">http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/how-write-your-transhumanist-article-helpful-guide-for-more-profitable-prophesyin</a>><br>
>><br>>> I don't have it in me to read it or respond to it, but some of you might.<br>><br>> I dunno... I found it mildly humorous, although his logic is<br>> admittedly pretty weak. I guess the rest of you have history with him<br>
> that taints how you see what he writes in this particular instance...<br>> Must be a pretty lame guy for all of you great people to dislike him.<br>> :-)<br>><br>> -Kelly<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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