From: Julian Assange (proff@suburbia.net)
Date: Sat Sep 04 1999 - 10:16:41 MDT
> Since we have only scratched the tip of the iceberg, I think the
> people who want to believe "I *am* my own master", have their
> work cut out for them in defending, what I predict will be an
> ever shrinking set of characteristics, behaviors, desires, motivations,
> etc. of which they are the master. Yes, we can modify ourselves,
> but our degrees of freedom are *limited*, until we have the
> technologies to change the hardware.
>
> Robert
There's very little work cut out for you if you define *I* to include
your all your biological activity, rather than merely the
language centre of the mind (which is after all, what is communicating here).
Julian.
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