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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: "Transimianism Objections"
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:04:40 -0700

On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> Subject: "Transimianism Objections"
>
> I found this both hilarious and a fair metaphor for current  
> objections to
> transhumanism.
> ...
> http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/diaz20071216/
> The following  was taken from a cave wall painting in southern Tunisia
> more than 300,000  years ago. Fossil evidence suggests that the author
> was of the species Homo  erectus.
> ...

I liked it too!  One nitpick:  (per Wikipedia)
bows and arrows weren't invented till about
40,000 years ago, so that would be a more
plausible date for the cave wall painting.

> Here we see Klomp's predictions  descend from unsupported speculation
> to sheer fantasy. His recent cave  painting, The Quickening is Near,
> explains in great detail different methods  we may employ to transform
> words into some kind of visible format, but all  are incomplete. The
> simple fact remains that words are sounds, not pictures,  and no
> amount of wishing will change that. ...
>


I was wondering how the author wrote the
article without doing that transforming
which is presumably impossible (not that
people don't contradict themselves like
that all the time), when I remembered --
a picture is worth a thousand words! :-)

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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