Re: Posthumans in Nature

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Nov 12 1999 - 09:26:48 MST


hal@finney.org writes:

> Even in this forum we often succumb to a form of chauvinism, in which any
> future which isn't dominated by humans is seen as a failure. Particularly
> with regard to predicted human vs machine wars, we automatically side
> with the humans, without asking which group is more deserving morally.
> We need to start thinking in broader terms and not identifying so closely
> with our genetics and metabolism.

Yes! Let's break free of speciesism! Mindkind unite!

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anders Sandberg                                      Towards Ascension!
asa@nada.kth.se                            http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:05:45 MST