From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 23:02:30 MDT
At 12:17 AM 5/8/02 EDT, T0Morrow wrote:
>I don't recall reading any mention on this list of the widely-reported work
>of Prof. Allan Snyder of Sydney University.
It's been discussed a few times, as has Snyder.
>I found amusing the notion that transhumanism could come from such an
>unexpected quarter.
What's unexpected about the corner? You mean Snyder's corner, Sydney
University's corner, or the transcranial activation and suppression corner?
If the first-mentioned: I introduced the genuinely polymathic Snyder in
1999 at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, and took questions from the floor
after his address; he did not seem averse to interesting and even
extravagant speculations. He won the lucrative Australia Prize several
years ago.
His Centre for the Mind site, complete with mad scientist portrait of him, is:
http://www.centreforthemind.com/
Damien Broderick
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