From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 07:20:37 MDT
In a message dated 6/2/2001 4:18:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
samantha@objectent.com writes:
<< I have seen many people of letters address such ultimates. Not
so much here though. Would you consider Tipler a person of
letters? Moravec? A variety of SF authors? What are the
boundaries to your "thinkers"? What determines membership?
- samantha >>
Also Nick Bostrom too, yet his view is surely not and optimistic As for
Moravec and Tipler, I like them both. But so we, so far, can count these
thinkers on one hand. As for posters to this list, most, have valuable
opinions, but how many have produced peer-reviewed scientific work? So now we
have 2 or 3 authors, and as for sci-fi authors? I read some interesting ones,
but ultimately, fiction is fiction, because that is what it is supposed to
be. My sense of this, and perhaps EXI-5 will being more thinkers to the
forefront, is that there is a paucity of scientists, engineers, and
philosophers, geared toward considering the "ultimates" of destiny, identity,
and the silly word called hope. Remit not paucity.
Mitch
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