[extropy-chat] re: Psychoengineering

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On 12/24/05, Amara Graps <Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it> wrote:
> > In the stomaches of astronauts?
>
> Oh, I forgot about the human symbiotes.. thanks for reminding me !
>

### And there is more than gut bacteria - every cell of our body is a
borganism descended from the amalgamation of an archean with a
protobacterium, giving rise to the nucleus and mitochondria. Mitos are
the symbionts that shape the meaning of our life - power, sex, and
death. See "Power, Sex, Suicide" by Nick Lane.

If one starts counting at the first true replicator, probably a
self-synthesizing pre-RNA polymerase, we are already the fourth
generation of borg (gene - eukaryont - metazoan - bacterial-mammal
composite being) and busily building the fourth (society) and the
fifth (borganic AIs). The menagerie is growing.

Rafal