[ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting

[Natasha Vita-More]

Thank you.  . And, on another note, I too long for my earliest life, as so
illustrated by Lynn Margulis in What is Life? A stunning story of how humans
are the result of a conglomeration of bacterium.

 

 <http://www.natasha.cc/> Natasha Vita-More
Chairman,  <http://www.humanityplus.org/> Humanity+ 

CCO, esDesign <emerging / speculative media>

PhD Researcher, Univ. of Plymouth, UK



Editor, The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and ContemporaryEssays on the
Science, 
Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future

 

"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.  Oscar Wilde
(But is this true then?)

 

From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni
Santostasi
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 6:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting

 

Beautiful article, Natasha.

 

But to be honest I really have nostalgia for the times when I was an
unicellular organism. Life was so simple and symmetric at that time. I was
almost perfectly round, and I didn't know left from right, with all the
political and existential tension that these terms can bring.

 

My beautiful and elegant body was without sensory or motor organs but the
currents in the water were carrying me around in an exciting, ever changing
unforeseeable swirling existence. A real dance of life. 

 

I was bumping into food and that was such a blessing, and even if went
hungry at times, I didn't really care because I had not a nervous system to
experience such negative sensation. 

 

Now, I have to actually, not really hunt my food, but at a minimum lift my
butt from the chair to go to a refrigerator and do the effort to open it and
look for eatable stuff in it (not always simple). 

 

I never understood these multi-cellular cultist that wanted to do the next
"step" in evolution. 

 

Such beautiful life the life of a bacterium. 

 

Giovanni

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>
wrote:

She is another negative, but at least somewhat civil voice. A couple of
years ago she claimed transhumanists don't dance, like our bodies, enjoy
senses, etc.  Here is my response to her claims:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090610/

 

 

From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni
Santostasi
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:45 PM


To: ExI chat list
Subject: Re: [ExI] He's Back - Carrico's continued ranting

 

And what is with this   <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/andreadis/>
Athena Andreadis, why she is making a big deal about Giulio's views on
women? Where do he says anything disparaging against women in the reference
she gives? Is she a friend or ally? She publishes on IEET. 

What is her problem?

Giovanni

 

 

 

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't really dislike him, he writes fun and often interesting
(other) things. He dislikes us all though, without distinctions.


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>> Appologizes for posting this icky link that someone forwarded to me:
>>
>>
<http://www.wfs.org/blogs/dale-carrico/how-write-your-transhumanist-article-
helpful-guide-for-more-profitable-prophesyin>
>>
>> I don't have it in me to read it or respond to it, but some of you might.
>
> I dunno... I found it mildly humorous, although his logic is
> admittedly pretty weak. I guess the rest of you have history with him
> that taints how you see what he writes in this particular instance...
> Must be a pretty lame guy for all of you great people to dislike him.
> :-)
>
> -Kelly
>
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