4 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2023
    1. eight brained meat sack
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          • ape-brained meat sack
    2. eight brained meat sacks
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          • ape-brained meat sack, taken from Elise's book
      • comment

        • comparable to Ernest Becker's description of the human condition
        • in his book The Denial of Death
          • quote:
            • "Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever."
      • comment

        • the comparison is apt as one of the goals of transhumanism is to use technology to conquer death
        • From this perspective, we might argue that transhumanist aspirations have been with humanity for as long as medicine has intervened to extend life and human wellbeing
    3. eighth brain meat sat
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          • aped-brained meat sack
    4. ape brained meet sat
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          • ape-brained meat sack