Posted by vr on March 02, 1997 at 22:47:01:
In Reply to: Re: ecstasy of vison posted by bison on March 01, 1997 at 15:22:37:
The otherness of technology will surely become internalized, at the very least.
Given the scenario postulated by Hans Moravec, that of
replacing our carbon-based bodies with essentially immortal
silicon-based ones, the it is hard ti say which might be stranger to us,
the meat of old or the flashing circuits of the new.
And of course this brave new cyborg being could itself be only
a way-station to a mode of existence based on pure fluxes of
energy. Freeman Dyson has some very interesting ideas on
how that might be accomplished, even in a closed universe, doomed to run down.