From: Delvieron@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 20:10:53 MST
In a message dated 12/1/1999 8:22:01 PM EST, neptune@mars.superlink.net
writes:
<< Maybe. I wouldn't see much point in making a human mind in an octopus
body,
though, I assume, such a mind would still be different -- in much the same
way people who drow up with some major difference (being very tall or short,
blind or deaf, e.g.) would add a distinctive new shade of _human_ being.
However, given the paranthetic remarks, there might be moral concerns about
this. After all, some might think a human mind in a nonhuman body might be
akin to crippling fetuses for the sake of making crippled children.
Cheers!
Daniel Ust
http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/ >>
A human mind in an octopus body is a bit more extreme than what I had in
mind. I was thinking more of a merging of human (or should that be
posthuman?) and octopod brain architectures. The body I imagine could stay
more or less the same (just adjusted to support the increased brain size).
Glen Finney
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