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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"'>This sounds right. <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"'>As an aside, aesthetics is based on a person’s interpretation of beauty and would be secondary to what you refer to as a transhumanist “pose a benefit”. <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"'>The transhumanist idea is to extend life and to do so, that would require interventions of the body that regenerate the body and enhance the body through technological approaches for (i) repair cell damage and (ii) to add new psychological and cognitive options that enhance a person. If one wants to add an aesthetic approach to this that would be great, but it would need the (i) and (ii). <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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More, PhD</span></a><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"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>B.K. DeLong<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Transhuman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Because, in my mind, the purpose of body modification within the definition of transhumanism is that you are doing so to transcend present limitations of the standard human body for the betterment of yourself beyond mere cosmetic beautification. <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>I think to qualify as transhumanism, body mods need to pose a benefit, such as a tattoo that gives a constant blood reading, removing a rib or two to allow for better flexibility and contortionism, or going so far as leg amputation for cybernetic limbs. Not just satisfy the subject's definition (and perhaps a segment of society's) of beautification.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Sep 4, 2012 12:57 PM, "Kelly Anderson" <<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Natasha Vita-More <<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc">natasha@natasha.cc</a>> wrote:<br>> The design is okay, but not unique. The storyline is adolescent. The<br>> sexuality is a toss back to Japanese sexuality of the 20th Century. I don't<br>> see where it is transhuman at all. What do you see as the connection?<br><br>Natasha,<br><br>Isn't the whole point of transhumanism that you can turn yourself into<br>something beyond human by your choice? If you do that in the gym, or<br>with plastic surgery or by having cybernetic extensions how is it<br>different? I even see tatoos as primitive transhumanism. Seems like<br>primitive transhumanism to me, how is it NOT transhumanism?<br><br>-Kelly<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>