From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Tue Oct 20 1998 - 06:52:19 MDT
Dan Fabulich wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> >Transhumanism is the idea that future technology will probably improve
> >dramatically on the human body and the human mind. We or our descendants, in
> >five years or five hundred, may transcend so many limitations that we will no
> >longer be recognizably human - or even mortal.
>
I still have a problem with an absolutist statement. I prefer to look at
'transhumanity' as a state an individual is in relative to the current or past
population. Since even when suprehuman uploaded or AI intelligences are common,
there will still be a large number of not only unaugmented, but still relatively
savage lifestyle living individuals, using the term to apply to the entire race is
a bit disingenuous.
Mike Lorrey
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