From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 07:25:45 MDT
Unfortunately, I don't have time this morning to make a response to Damien's
post -- I hope to later this week or this coming weekend. In the meantime,
for folks who missed my talk at Extro5, I've put it onto my website at:
http://gregburch.net/progress.html
Greg Burch
www.gregburch.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: The meaning of philosophy and the lawn chair
> At 09:42 PM 6/24/01 -0700, Hal wrote:
>
> >I feel we should work
> >toward a new methodology for addressing the genuine difficulties which
> >some people have with aspects of future technology. The language of
> >battle, of conflict, is not the appropriate metaphor for addressing
> >this problem. We should not seek to vanquish our opponents, to defeat
> >them in debate or in politics.
>
> Indeed. This is the main disagreement I had with Greg Burch's excellent
> address at Extro5--it was far too structured by the rhetoric of conflict
> and even battle. This *might* turn out eventually to be literally true,
and
> in some instances is already, but I find it a self-defeating choice of
> analysis and semiotic tactics.
>
> Damien Broderick
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