At 01:42 PM 5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Natasha wrote
>>*I have separated the last sentence from his original paragraph for
>emphasis:
>>
>>"And if we should surrender our genetic nature to machine-aided
>>ratiocination, and our ethics and art and our very meaning to a habit of
>>careless discursion in the name of progress, imagining ourselves godlike
>>and absolved from our ancient heritage, we will become nothing."
>Yes, I particulary appreciated this last parapraph from Wilson's book. (snip)
Natasha