From: Steve (steve@multisell.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 02:37:25 MDT
>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:05:07 -0700
>From: "Osher Doctorow" <osher@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: less sex, more brains!
>From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Tues. July 16, 2002 7:11PM
>I agree with Eliezer and Vanessa. So do many very religious Buddhists,
>Catholics, Jews, Hindus, and a number of very knowledge-oriented
scientists.
>In fact, it is well known that a tendency exists for very abstract
>knowledge-oriented scientists to be relatively uninterested in sex and
other
>materialistic things.
>Osher Doctorow
Do you allow yourself a sly one off the wrist?
Have you read Freud? What psychotherapeutic implications have you
considered? Sex is a natural dricve and I suspect that to artificially
repress
it causes psychological problems in an individual, and societal problems at
large. The last thing we need is a high priesthood of Extropian cultists.
The supernaturalist cults you list have their own weird displacement
activities to take the place of sex. These include emotional isplacement
towards loving a pseudo-father, God, or whatever. Do you intend to have
an eroto-emotional experience of/ thru science? What form will this take?
Steve Nichols
Posthuman entity
www.multi.co.uk
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