From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 03:59:43 MST
"Samael" <samael@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
> >
> >While I don't feel any particular desire to change sex, the general
> >ability to do so quite easily like Iain M. Banks' Culture humans carries
> >a certain attraction.
>
> Generally, I like the idea of being able to change gender, species and other
> apsects of myself. The question arises as to whether you'd have to engineer
> parts of the mind to change gender or not.
Most likely yes. Exactly how and what to change depends a bit on what
you want to achieve, of course. I don't think changing the "gender" of
the whole brain is particularly practical, but maybe sexual
preferences might be interesting to have a setting for (you need to do
something in the hypothalamus, but we don't know where yet - that is
one piece of messy programming, the brain's version of spaghetti
code). But of course, at the time when this kind of automorphism
becomes possible we will have a better idea of what we might want to
change and how.
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