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A fundamental property of all life is the preference of similar forms to that of dissimilar forms, no way around this programming of nature. No wonder we are all more racist than we think we are.

Just applied to be the Obama administrations chief science advisor.

The major achievement of humanity which has directly led to our current success has been our ability to communicate and thus socialize and cooperate in a highly effective manner. There will come a point when a single mind is no longer capable to producing anything original or useful and only a collection of minds can be productive. A natural ( Read more... )

I believe that if one decides to impose ones moral beliefs on another regarding the birth of their child, that person must then be willing to involve ones self beyond the birth as well. All too often I notice that pro-lifers demand the protection of a life inside the womb, but once the child exits the womb that protection ends and the parent is all ( Read more... )

I want to be able to control with my mind all that is beyond the extent of my physical body. This should be possible: all is one in the interconnected wholeness of the universe. I would gladly allow my body to atrophy and become vestigial in order to accomplish this feat.

I fear that if I ever identified what it is that keeps me going it would not survive the scrutiny of my logic. I should spare it from this death, the best way to nurture this driving force will be to keep it hidden.

Imagine these two scenarios. You take the current state of your mind and replicate it to form another mind (biological or not), while simultaneously destroying the original. Now compare this process to something a little more subtle but with exactly the same affect: Slowly replacing parts of you mind with artificial components that behave exactly ( Read more... )

yay, its like a snow day today. except its in the summer and there is no snow. The places Heather and I work at are without power today, and people cannot work without computers and computers cannot work without power.

The difference is that the Deniers, if they had it their way and they end up being wrong, then the world will be inhospitable to humans. If the Alarmists had it THEIR way and THEY end up being wrong, we will be left with a cleaner and healthier planet, a whole new market sector devoted to green technology, and a better way of managing the finite ( Read more... )