[ExI] Question from a neophyte

[Stefano Vaj]

As somebody coming from "wet" transhumanism, I could not endorse more
the following Natasha's statement. In fact, we have just begun to tap
into the potential of biotech itself...

On 5 March 2010 01:46,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
> I'm not sure why you would chose Moravec as an entry point. It would not be
> my choice at all.  Transhumanism is not about robots and bush people.
>  Transhumanism is a philosophical worldview.  If you lens is robotics,
> again, I would not single out Moravec, but engage a collection of sciences
> and technologies through which the transhumanist goal or future could be or
> has the potential of being established.
>
> And I agree with you about the Western narrative, by I do not agree that it
> is a bad thing.  Body transcendence is not the aim of transhumanism -
> whether a body is used or not is NOT the point!  Uploading is not the GOAL
> of transhumanism!
>
> This is why transhumanism gets a bad rap.  I oppose Moravec's particular
> vision, no matter how imaginative it is.  We will not forgo the biological
> body for no body, but transform the biological body for semi and
> non-biological bodies in real time and in synthetic environments.
>
> To assume Moravec's vision of uploads (by the way a more contemporary phrase
> for transferring the brain's content to an artificial system is "whole brain
> emulation"), is the entry point and the ground rule of transhumanism is
> simply not correct.

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Stefano Vaj