Urth-Earth links

David Stockhoff · 20 Oct 2011, 02:13 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:13:33 -0400
Subject: (urth) Urth-Earth links
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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.

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