[ExI] Bodies

[Kevin Freels]

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From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
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Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 1:22:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Bodies

On 3/9/2010 1:09 PM, Keith Henson wrote:

> I suspect that virtually all humans will abandon physical reality entirely.
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> You can see this starting with Second Life and WoW.


I don't think that "virtually all humans" will do this. Instead, I expect that this kind of branching of human evolution will be done by a relatively small segment of the population. In time, that segment will grow, but a suspect that a large majority of the population will simply see this as another religion, or just another unique way of life much as nudists are viewed.  With the "God gene" existing in such a large portion of the population and the huge number of people who would believe that such a thing as giving up your meat-body would be the work of the devil, I am certain that there would be lots of violence along the way. The only way that I see "virtually all humans" abandoning physical reality is if those battle result in the death of the rest of the people who don't. 
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