<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Not sure if you have ever read these stories, but even if not exactly transhumanist in theme, they talk about how existence can embody different forms and places, in the vast cosmic play. I think somebody should write similar stories to descr</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ibe how consciousness would be embodied in higher forms of being as the universal saga continues from existing all crowded in One Point at the Big Bang times to the time we will play with galaxies like if they were chips on the cosmic casino: here the complete Italo Calvino 's Cosmicomics:<a href="http://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none;outline:none">http://irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvino-italo-cosmicomics.pdf</a></span> <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:29 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">>… Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Giovanni Santostasi</span></p>
<div class="im"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting<u></u><u></u></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>Next project is to write a transhumanist version of Italo Calvino Cosmic-Comics.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div class="im"><div><p class="MsoNormal">The critics should not be the only ones that can laugh at our expenses we should laugh about ourselves too.<span style="color:#1f497d">   </span>Giovanni<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Giovanni, I had to look up your reference to Italo Calvino, and saw he is a comedian of some sort.  I have been thinking of comedy as a vehicle for ideas.  Your reference reminded me of a brilliant comic strip character we had here in the early 90s, Calvin and Hobbes.  The strip ended 17 years ago, but I still see people reading the complied books to this day.  Watterson introduced plenty of thought-provoking ideas through those characters.  Cartooning seems like such a terrific way of aiding meme penetration.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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