From: Gerhard Kessell-Haak (gerhard_kessell-haak@mail.tait.co.nz)
Date: Wed Jul 22 1998 - 15:46:42 MDT
>>> Eugene Leitl <eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su> 23/July/1998
04:29am >>>
Gerhard Kessell-Haak (Gerhard Kessell-Haak) writes:
> I've always thought that a superior analogy would be between
humanity
> and "chimpanity" - chimpanzee's have relatively complex social [...]
You're missing the point. The posthumanity's complexity deltas to us
_could_ be a lot more than between Feynman and a rhabdovirus.
Comparison with insects are weak enough, and comparisons with
apes/hominids can cut it even less.
'gene
>>
Fair enough. However, what iteration of post-humanity are we talking
about here? Assuming increasing abilities in reasoning and 'extropy' for
each iteration, this argument begins to depend heavily on which iteration
one is talking about. I find it difficult to believe that the difference
between humanity and the first iteration of transhumanity (or
iteration-set, if there is a bifurcation into many different forms of
transhumanity) will be as large as that between humanity and insects.
The second iteration, though, I'm not so sure about.
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