From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 04:41:33 MDT
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:03:50AM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> If you read Nietzche's "AntiChrist" you will see that he had
> more than a little admiration for Buddhism. He thought it was
> the naturally evolving state of an older (and perhaps more
> played out) civilization, roughly speaking.
This shows the problem of talking about him: he changed view over time,
and what might be true for the "early Nietzsche" might not be true for
the "late Nietzsche".
I guess we all will have these problems when we live long and
flexibly enough. The views of the 1990-2010 Anders Sandberg might have
very little relation (beside some core values and history) with the views
of the 2090-2100 Anders Sandberg. Even worse, we might fork ourselves -
we have to distinguish between the 2100 Earth Anders, the 2100 Upload
Anders and the 2100 Jupiter Anders and all their descendant states.
Biographies will get *complex*. And somewhere a buddhist is standing
around smiling...
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