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Comment on The Dalai Lama, a transhumanist?

3LSZVJA9 Tue, Jan 8, 2008


...so here is...hes very...(religious ecstasy)...nice answer...



"Fundamental differences () technology and human being.
Technology, no feeling of pain and pleasure.
The human being, with mind, with emotion, with feelings of pain and pleasure...
Therefore technology, science, I think mainly technology...
suppose to provide happier life.
so technology and science should serve the human being.
Should not be human being become slave for money or technology. ()
So therefore, generally, modern education
not adecuate regarding promotion
for keeping our inner values.
So that's why I'm telling my friends:
now we need more () attention for our inner values.
I think one day, the part of our brain which brings feeling
should remove then we should be like robots
and ourselves become part machines,
that good right now()."


No man, he was joking.
He begun by criticizing the present lack of care
for human values in our education (or this guy's education, anyway).

You can continue thinking whatever you want, of course.

Everybody knows that the best plan is not to become part machines, but to create machines that are able to more or less mimic our external behavior and then shoot ourselves in the mouth.

For those that are still not evolved enough
to see the advantages of that plan,
scientists have recently come up with a less radical solution.
It's called castration-o-rama.
Castration-o-rama is like a first step towards
higher enlightenment and it quickly leaves the
not-evolved-enough subject ready to
take the final leap of transhumanist faith.

In the meantime, I think Jonathan Swift's modest proposal of feeding the children of poor people to the rich, making them useful for society, and relieving their parents from their burden, is a project that demands more attention.

No, seriously.