[MD] Transhumanism

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On 20 Jun 2010 at 5:34, MarshaV wrote:

> Question:
> 
> Conventionally speaking, what do intellectuals do?  

Hi Marsha,

As usual, Pirsig has the answer:

"There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have 
to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows 
and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity 
and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head 
empty in order to learn it. It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing 
old tea around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've never 
really tried anything new, because you could never get it in, because the old 
stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was so good, 
because you never really tried anything new . . . on and on in an endless 
circular pattern." (Lila, 2)

No wonder intellectuals love loops, strange and otherwise. :-) 

Platt