From: Omega (omega@pacific.net)
Date: Mon Jan 27 1997 - 19:25:24 MST
Robin Hanson wrote:
> I don't think you can sensibly talk about engineering your values.
> You can choose your strategies, heuristics, ways of framing
> situations, and you can remind yourself of things you value that
> aren't naturally highlighted in situations. But you want what you
> want. If you want to want something else, then how can it be that you
> wanted it in the first place?
This just begs the question of what "you" is, and what we hope to
accomplish with trans-humanism. Philosophers have been arguing the
first part for longer than we can imagine, and I don't feel we can
just blow this question off so easily. Trans-humanism ultimately
leads to shape-shifting (not to mention mind and emotion shifting
before that) at which time the question will be very personal and
"in our face" so to speak.
-- In the Ecstatic Service of Life -- Omega
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