[ExI] Can the pope stop technological self-transformation?

[Bryan Bishop]

On Thursday 06 March 2008, Mirco Romanato wrote:
> Bryan Bishop ha scritto:
> > On Friday 29 February 2008, Damien Broderick wrote:
> > > > What power? Money? They certainly don't have supercomputers,
> > > > they don't have massive research institutions, they don't have 
> > > > neurofarms, the only power they have is lots of listeners and a 
> > > > widely distributed mental program. What does this power have to 
> > > > do with transhumanism? 
> > >
> > > Uh oh. Have you never heard of Stalin's famous contemptuous taunt:
> > > "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
> >
> > No, I hadn't, but what difference does it make how many the Pope
> > has?
>
> The answer is "He has none, but he can take ours." (the Poles, the
> Ukrainians....).

Ours are of the mind and our own bodies. Tell me, can he take our minds?

- Bryan
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