[MD] Transhumanism

[MarshaV]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 11:04 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Marsha previously]
> Conventionally speaking, what do intellectuals do?  
> 
> [Arlo]
> They write books about metaphysics. 
> 
> [Marsha]
> Is there a conventional answer to this question?   What is the definition of an
> intellectual?  Are you an intellectual?  If yes, what are the qualifications? 
> Is there a test?  Is there a special handshake?   You seem to be sensitive to
> being anti-intellectual, so you should be able to define what is an
> intellectual?  Otherwise, what are you complaining about?   
> 
> [Arlo]
> Complaining? You asked what intellectuals do, I simply said that they write
> books about metaphysics. Don't you consider Pirsig an intellectual? I certainly
> do. This is a little bit, though, like asking if someone is an "athlete". Ask
> ten people if golfers or billiards-players are athletes and you'll likely get
> mixed answers. (Is a referee at a soccer match an "athlete", considering they
> run as much if not more than the players?) What about someone who sails around
> the world, an "athlete"? What about someone who rows in river races? What about
> someone who drives a speed boat?
> 
> But yeah, I think Pirsig, you, me, Platt, DMB, Ham, Bo, Krimel, John, Ian...
> all of us... we're all intellectuals here.
> 
> "But I don't want to go among intellectual people," Alice remarked.
> "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all intellectual here. I'm
> intellectual. You're intellectual."
> "How do you know I'm intellectual?" said Alice.
> "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
> 
> 

 
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