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Re: LIFESCIENCE: last and first men

  
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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>>I'd like to know who has read Olaf stapledons"last and first men" ...
>>stopping to think for a moment about lifesceinces,, and i see moravec and
>>dawkins and all the rest i might connect with this science and i realize
>>that the "bible" for this type of thought just might be olafs book... it's
>>pretty comprehensive in it's range of mutation and evolution,, involution,,
>>electrovolution,, cybervolution,, etc etc ... where did he see it end,,,
>>in a beautiful music that was man.
>
>This sounds interesting (although I am not such a romantic believer in
>"man") -is there a summary available?
>


    How would you summarize a life?? or a "man" ? How and what would you
believe in , if you wanted to believe in a man or a life..
    And what are these bodies that inhabit us??
    And could we change them.. and who would the we be that would do the
changing??
   

   Is everyone aware of the giant bacteria found a few weeks ago off the
african coast (i could send the press clip)... It's supposedly magnitudes
bigger then any other bacteria and visible to the human eye..
   Does anyone believe that before it was gazed upon,,, that it actually
existed??  and now that it does exist,,, has been gazed upon,, has entered
this actual world...  whatare the implications??  
    the gigantizising of the molecular world?? Furniture of giant living
bacteria??  amusement parks of microbes??  Fantastic voyage reversed!!!!!


     

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