From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 20:46:41 MDT
It's interesting to reflect upon the Extropian consciousness, personality,
and belief system as though it were that of a living organism. Of course,
sometimes corporations and nations start to act like they're single entities
---nations can get angry, corporations jealous, and so on, in ways that
appear to rise above any corresponding feeling of any particular individuals.
The recent exchange on Extropians about our "internal thoughts" as
opposed to our "external image" is a case in point. On the one hand,
the extropian consciousness, if I may, wished to continue to have a
very open mind about nearly everything, even including how humans
should be valued or whether infanticide is thinkable, but on the other
hand felt no little angst about how the extropian character or
consciousness was going to be perceived from the outside.
Normally, due to the default secrecy of one's own thoughts, humans have
a natural barrier between these. What you think is made public only
if you allow it to be public. And yet even with human beings, clearly,
many things are done only for the sake of appearances. So it seems
not unnatural that some people in the body Extropian, especially officers
and the more committed, would get pretty queasy wondering about how
all the internal brainstorming is being perceived from outside. It almost
makes folks here yearn for the entity (i.e. Extropians) to have the same
kind of privacy that all humans enjoy when contemplating their own thoughts.
Just a thought.
Lee
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