(urth) Urth-Earth links

[Jeff Wilson]

On 10/19/2011 9:13 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 10:01 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On Wed, October 19, 2011 20:38, Lee Berman wrote:
>>>
>>> As I see it the difference lies in that there is no consciousness in a
>>> liver or cornea.
>>>
>>> If a head transplant or brain transplant seems rather horrible, a
>>> partial
>>> version of that
>>>
>>> as alzabo/autarch analeptic is, seems partly horrible.
>> If they are entered into freely, how are those horrible? It's not as if
>> Severian suffers from his participation, quite the opposite. Appian gets
>> less dead rather than more, and the predecessors also get to lend their
>> wisdom a bit longer.
>  From that perspective, it's no different from getting scanned and
> uploaded. A little scary, maybe an ethical question or two, but you do
> it because the alternative is worse.
>
> But that's almost a trip to the dentist in comparison. We're discussing
> cannibalism in the form of a mock Last Supper. I submit that there are
> other, formal considerations here that are higher than choice and
> self-determination.

Like saving the world and preventing the extinction of the human race?


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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