Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sue From: sue@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Susan Haseltine) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: fat at the recent L.A. Con II Message-ID: <1325@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 13:06:28 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1325 Posted: Fri Sep 21 13:06:28 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:42:17 EDT References: <208@gitpyr.UUCP>Reply-To: sue@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Susan Haseltine) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 31 Summary: < high caloric content > Will - You say ignore the body, the only part of a human being that counts is the brain? I agree that this attitude helps in trying to deal with people equitably, and that prejudices regarding an individuals physical appearance are unfortunate. I do not however, feel that you can EVER separate the brain and the body. Our brain is what it is because it evolved with our body. Likewise our bodies are formed by our brain/minds. As for replacing the body with mecanical/electronic form, it is doubtful that tecnology will ever be able to total recreate the complex chemical and electical environment our wonderful bodies provide for us. Our humanty resides in our bodies as well as our brains; in fact, our brains are part of our bodies, and unless there is some transferable soul which could be encased in a mechanical marvel, you can't have brain without body. If the problems of prejudice base on phiscal appreance are to be solved it must be in the heart, not by abandoning the heart for some mechanical perfection. Susan Haseltine ...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix,ucla-cs}!sdcrdcf!sue