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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:02:34 EST
Subject: coadjutant etc.

Scott Badger asked about the term "coadjutant." 
 
I have seen both "coadjutant" and "coadjunate" used, although I don't  

remember by whom. Either seems like a convenient term for multicorporeal  
brains. 
(I'm not a Dr., by the way.)
 
As for a feeling fog, or any kind of "shape shifter," as well as  

coadjunates, there are countless problems, and the only use for such ideas at  
present, 
aside from amusement, is to help elasticize (or perhaps congeal) our  views on 
survival. 
 
There doesn't seem to be much difference in principle between a  widely 
distributed brain or a conventionally localized brain. Our current  brains are 
already extended in space (as is everything?), and our qualia  (ourselves?) in 
space and time. Greater extensions seem to add nothing really  new from this 
standpoint, although there could be immense implications in other  ways.
 
Robert Ettinger


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