(urth) Urth-Earth links

[David Stockhoff]

On 10/19/2011 10:42 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 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?
>
>

No, that's not at all relevant to the point.