Re: Why consciousness matters

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 18:47:15 MST


>
> I want to confute words that confuse thinking because I have an
> affinity for clarity and coherence. Perhaps it's a congenital
> condition. The motivation for uploading information stored in our
> brains and bodies comes from the biological imperative to survive,
> to thrive, to move toward more highly complex adaptive systems
> (which is how I think of extropy).

Biological imperative? How quaint.

>
> So, (why) do you want to obfuscate, subvert, or demean this?
>

obfuscating, subverting, demeaning the "Biological Imperative", is pretty
much transhumanism to me.

Emlyn



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