From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 09:09:18 MDT
At 08:44 PM 5/28/01 -0700, Lee wrote:
>I used to think it quite useless years ago to hear people
>pronounce "well, we're all mentally ill". But from the
>perspective of an SI, it could well be true.
You are not far off, Lee. I agree with this statement. I think that humans
have a psychological wiring that has run so deep in its neural pathways
that we have great difficulty overcoming. It is produced from the Limbic
system and although the Frontal Lobe has put a cap on it, to some degree.
I think we will look back on humans and early transhumans (most of us) as
have a mental/emotional disease. Whether this disease is as strong and
certain types of severe schizomanic, to more mild boarder line personality
and depression, to even lighter degrees of insecurity, fear, jealousy, to
bad mood, irritability, etc.
Each person may be outstanding in his or her intelligence, but resistance
to change in other areas and no matter how we tug and pull and claim that
we are so bright and capable, our shortcomings and blocked thinking are
like shirts untucked or dangling petticoat. They are there and obvious, no
matter how we miss them.
Thus, SI and posthumans and even late transhumans will evolve behind this
mental illness and interfere with intelligence by the very nature of its
chemical effects on the brain.
I don't think it an insult to say the above, but a matter of common sense.
Even though we try our best to claim intelligence above all, the bare bone
truth is that humans are still entangled by fears.
Natasha
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