[extropy-chat] Physicians and Spirituality

[Diego Caleiro]

Supose that 

1 You can develop sentient minds
2 You can change characteristics of your own mind
3 You can control some characteristics of this sentient mind to be "better" 
than ours, more altruistic, more visual accuracy etc...


Wouldn't you change yourself to something like that, and wouldn't you want 
that gradually people feel like becoming more intelligent, altruists, etc...

eventually, everybody would be this new kind of being, and therefore, our sort 
of mind, the old mind, would be gone. 

That is what i mean, not eliminating sentient life. 

diego Caleiro (Log At)







Em Quinta 23 Junho 2005 00:01, Russell Wallace escreveu:
> On 6/23/05, Diego Caleiro <diegocaleiro at terra.com.br> wrote:
> > I beleive I would be right to metaforize our mind developed by evolution
> > of old mind, meaning a designed mind is a better one. Therefore, I think
> > the end of a mind like ours, with tendency to power, war, exceding vanity
> > etc... would be a great thing to disapear.
>
> Would you advocate blowing up the planet, then? Amounts to the same
> thing: eliminate sentient life. (Actually, blowing up the planet would
> be better; a nonsentient UFAI would gobble everything in .X of our
> light cone, possibly eliminating chances for someone else to do
> better. No, your "designed mind" isn't going to be sentient. If you
> think otherwise, by all means explain how you propose to design a
> sentient mind.)
>
> > Isn't that one of the transhuman goals?
>
> *shrug* What's a transhuman? It's not one of my goals, to put it mildly.
>
> - Russell
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