Re: Heresy

From: Loree Thomas (loreetg@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 14:16:42 MDT


--- Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
wrote:
>
> 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).

As humans change, the definition of what is human
changes... so that whatever we are today is "human".
Thus you are correct, there are no transhumans around
today (for any value of "today").

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

Hate to quibble, but that sounds "posthuman" to me.

Loree

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