From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Mon May 10 1999 - 17:36:23 MDT
At 01:42 PM 5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Natasha wrote
>>*I have separated the last sentence from his original paragraph for
>emphasis:
>>
>>"And if we should surrender our genetic nature to machine-aided
>>ratiocination, and our ethics and art and our very meaning to a habit of
>>careless discursion in the name of progress, imagining ourselves godlike
>>and absolved from our ancient heritage, we will become nothing."
>Yes, I particulary appreciated this last parapraph from Wilson's book. (snip)
This last paragraph shows that Wilson would like to preserve the human
biology and does not support augmentations. I'm a bit confused, I thought
you disagreed with my initial statement.
Natasha
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