From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 19:32:44 MST
Steve Nichols wrote:
> Sorry to have to butt in every now and then on the cosy, Extropian world
> view,
Oh, never mind. I had to get up to read the mail anyway.
> but events move quickely and have clearly overtaken "transhuman" philosophy
> in all of its forms.
All? An extraordinary claim.
> No one picked up on my posting about "archeological" evidence
> we are already posthuman, but never mind.
Perhaps we were all in awe of its depth and irrefutability.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This sounded just a little bit
like a Claude Degler fugue to me.
--
MMB<==butler a t comp - lib . o r g Wm. Burroughs said it best: "After a shooting
spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. And you?
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