<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Mar 30, 2020, at 1:54 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><font size="4">From what I read, solitary confinement is truly a horrible form of punishment. Some people go bats after just a few days. There is something very basic about being around other people Way back in history being kicked out of a tribe was the worst punishment possible. The victim usually tried to get into another one rather than live alone, which would have been a very spare life at that.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think in many cases back then, exile meant death or certainly can increased likelihood of death.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><font size="4">I don't know if the mind is totally changeable. I suspect it isn't. On Quora I find a lot of questions about changing one's self, one's habits. The reason is that they are difficult to very difficult to accomplish. In uploads it might be easy, but if I liked sour cream blueberry pie, which is in the oven as we speak, why would I want to change that? If I were an introvert upload and wanted to change to extrovert, I could, but why would I? I am comfortable with what I have.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Curiosity, maybe. I have done many things I felt uncomfortable about initially that later I enjoyed.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><font size="4">I dunno. A lot of this seems so artificial, and of course that's all it is. I am deeply romantic and would hate to see that changed in any way. I hate what we are doing to this planet and don't want to live in a habitat circling Jupiter or somewhere. Why mess with perfection?</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Is there any perfection in just embracing WIKIWIL? (What I Know Is What I Like)Mind you, I’m not saying anyone should be forced to alter their core personality.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>