Re: extropians-digest V7 #150

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 04:47:42 MDT


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> Nope. We choose. Get that point deeply in your psyche. Most of even
> us don't really get the extent to which this is increasingly true and
> what it implies. We base most of our arguments on things we once had
> little choice about but are by no means invariant today, much less
> tomorrow. Human beings have been working to not have their behavior
> utterly given by their evolutionary history for thousands of years.
> Now we have far better tools present or on the drawing boards for more
> than ever being in control of our own destiny and nature. The
> question then is how we will choose and how we will implement our
> choices.
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> - samantha
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Yes! We are finally in a position of power that enables us to choose how
we can remain there without resort to violence, crap, or
exploitation...I find this the most exciting thing one could consider.
It is time, my friends, to boldly go and split infinitives. (last one to
Alpha Centauri's a wimp)



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