Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahutb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!ahuta!ahutb!leeper From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: re: Loose Ends (BRAINSTORM) Message-ID: <551@ahutb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 21:34:40 EST Article-I.D.: ahutb.551 Posted: Mon Mar 11 21:34:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 22:46:43 EST References: <804@topaz.ARPA> <509@ahutb.UUCP>, <4237@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 24 REFERENCES: <804@topaz.ARPA> <509@ahutb.UUCP>, <4237@ucla-cs.ARPA> > In article <509@ahutb.UUCP> leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.leeper) writes: > > > ... The at-death-experience is one of the least interesting > >implications they could follow. ... > > Oh, come on now. The question of what happens when a man dies can > hardly be considered uninteresting. No, but it is less interesting than any number of other ideas they touched on but passed up. What it would do to our understanding of animal intelligence and psychology would have been more interesting. What it would do to human relations, what it would do to defense technology, what it would do to psychiatric treatment, to the entertainment industry, all these were ideas picked up and then abandoned. By rights, this should have been BRAINSTORM I, first of a long series to how the world would be completely transformed by this one tool. I do find the at-death experience of some interest, but there is so much more that could be done with the premise given time! Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper