Re: Heresy

From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 12:05:58 MDT


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From: Eugene Leitl Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

>There are no transhumans around today. There might be some around
tomorrow. Meaning, you'll never meet any. (Unless you or them can do time
travel).<

It seems you are describing a posthuman and its decendents, not a transhuman.

>I would put transhuman at 'so heavily modified or designed from scratch
you can't associate it with the point of departure, as basic human bauplan
for the last few 100 kYrs'.<

>Meaning, you wouldn't recognize it as human, or even a being, if you
happened to run into it.<

Posthuman, upload and further out entities.

Natasha

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