X-Message-Number: 19033
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 09:33:20 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #19031 - #19032

Hi (for Natasha):

Perhaps because I've never automatically assumed that things MUST go
well you have decided that I am pessimistic. I am not.

As for "the apt reasoning of extropians and many other transhumanists"
I am sure that some extropians and transhumans have apt reasoning, but
completely fail to see how apt reasoning only occurs among extropians
and transhumanists. I know you did not say that, but your statements
seem to be some kind of refutation of what you believe to be my
beliefs. 

Just what we'll choose to become in the future, as individuals, remains
unknown... both to us as individuals and as a biological species. 
Speaking only for myself, I am happy to adopt any change which 
increases my insight and/or adapts me better to the world in which
I choose to live (as opposed to adaptations which make me "better"
as seen by some or many others). I would also prefer to retain my
basic human form, mainly because it helps in contacting other people.
And naturally I would consider much longer lifespan to be part of
such a change. Yet this is provisional: what will happen in the 
future and how I will choose to adapt to it remain unknown.

		Best wishes and long long life,

			Thomas Donaldson

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