[MURG] Re: various replies

[Keith Wiley]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Joseph J. Strout wrote:

> Mind uploading is a medical technology intended to save a patient's life when 
> all other treatment options have been exhausted.  Period. We're not playing 
> God, we're not trying to become superhuman, we're not geeks with no social 
> life dreaming of being omnipotent.  We are well-adjusted, perfectly normal 
> researchers with a desire to reduce human suffering, just like the other 
> folks working on artificial hearts, cures for diabetes, and so on.

Good point Joe.  Gotta our heads on Earth or no one will ever take it 
seriously...or worse they will Bill Joy it: take it seriously and hate it.

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Keith Wiley         kwiley at cs.unm.edu         http://www.unm.edu/~keithw

"Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson,
that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to
aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
                                            --  Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland
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