From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 09:13:56 MDT
"Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com> writes:
> O'Regan, Emlyn wrote:
> > What do you call a society of borganisms?
>
> Each borganism has its own consciousness, and would therefore act like a
> single individual with many bodies. The details of such a society would be
> very different from anything we've seen before, but the basic questions
> about how resources are to be controlled would remain. Thus, a society of
> borganisms could use anything from a pure free market to absolute
> collectivism.
And in the borganism society some of course argue that collectivism is
an infringement on their rights and that individuality as a borganism
is very important for freedom. :-)
Hmm, an Objectivist borg? "We are Ayn of Rand, resistance is futile..." :-)
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