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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5455)	2/26/2000 2:33:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13018

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. Oscar Wilde Head transplant--- I guess I brought that up because I'm intrigued and appalled also--- My sister (a highly metaphysical being) argues the center or spirit of life is the energy that creates 'us'-- that we are a whole with our mind, body and spirit...while I see the mind as the center and thus the bodiless head needs only what sustains it (blood, oxygen, nutrients) and can use another 'body' and be the same 'person'... guess paraplegics or terminally-ill could use another body...think of the greatest minds still working and think of the very rich having the 'best' bodies for a much greater length of time.... What really fascinates me is that we are in fact 'gods' in science.....physics, cloning, transplant, genes, drugs and nanotechnology...the fact we are electric and chemical makes us manipulative and manipulated....a science experiment or project....and when we fear we become spiritual or mystical (fear of the unknown). I like being mystical :?) I guess my fear would be if I would wake up and find that my head was transplanted on a female body...and I would be changed.... As far as animal research humans have been treating less-fortunate humans in the same realm and far crueler.... We are cruel because we are animals. Not a very good ending? Its always the paradox. But we do live in the most interesting of times. Anyways here an interesting article of a person using technology to 'think' and use a paralyzed hand. techreview.com ~.~ The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard see Testament.... breakaway.org