From: Matthew Gream (matthew.gream@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 07:59:49 MST
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>emerging phase of society ? If there is no term, what is the best
representing of a society that >is sentience/conscious centered ? 'sentience
centered' ? (think: animal rights movements, ethics
Not good of me to reply to my own email, but just a clarification. It has
been suggested that the term post-human is appropriate, but I wonder about
the term as it does not encompass the general idea that non-human lifeforms
can have their minds uploaded into an ethereal medium. For instance, if I
had a turtle (realively simple mind, _I suspect_), then it can also join
into the new collectively connected society: it's mind could be uploaded or
transferred or replicated, etc. This is I why I think that 'sentience
centered' may be a better term ?
I suppose that sometime soon (if not already?), experimentalists will be
able to train, develop and then replicate the minds of non-complex beings.
Matthew.
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matthew.gream@pobox.com
Cambridge_UK/2000
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