From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 13:10:40 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 10:50 am, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > Our minds make us human. DNA has nothing to do with it.
>
> I thought the whole point of transhumanism was to trascend our DNA
> limits and our bodies. Uploaded humans would be called transhumans
> because they no longer would be human. Augmented, genetically
> engineered, cloned or other adaptations away from our natural DNA
> blueprint also could be called transhuman.
>
> If our minds make us human, then it seems that uploads, cyborgs,
> mutants, trans-species, simulations and disembodied brains would not be
> considered transhuman.
Uploads, cyborgs, mutants, transspecies, simulations, and discorporates are
not transhuman unless they are smarter than Homo sapiens sapiens. A
transhuman is a transhuman mind.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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