From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 19:17:54 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Neurotech is going to be the controversial thing. What does "human"
> mean when you can alter it? Not just enhance memory or change sexual
> preferences, but add *new* structures to the brain like the ability to
> do something like episodic memory for muscle movements? Lots of issues
> here, and biotech will contribute with problems.
>
Who cares what "human" means? Why does that keep getting asked
(as a reason not to do it) when people start talking about
becoming transhuman? Too many Star Trek memes?
--
The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed.
-William Gibson
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