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| - Interview with Natasha Vita More by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. My background is in media arts and science and my research concerns human enhancement and radical life extension. Practice-based works are located in the visual media arts and theoretical work focuses on what I call the transitional human. Currently I am writing the PhD dissertation. Keep learning! Knowledge continues to becomes more symbiotic and culture continues to become more syncretic, so, in short, I would like to build media projects which link H+ ideas with narratives in novel ways. The accomplishments of biotechnology have set the stage. NBIC's potential to offer many new collaborations will certainly break through death's taught tether on our biology and psychology. It is quite difficult to forecast a specific time when we will be able to enjoy a radically extended life, but cryonics will be realized as a one very pivotal means. One which diversity is appreciated and the human mind is far more invested in creative ideation than destructive anger. This cognitive shift could bring about social change which would enormously affect just about every aspect of life. Before technologies' emancipation of all possible future worlds, it is human behavior which must evolve. I signed up for cryonic suspension in early 1991. It's level of success depends on so many variables. Rather than selecting one scenario, I have to look at it many different potential successes. In the large picture, a few suggestions are that it will technically succeed when a person is suspended for any length of time and successfully reanimated; it will socially succeed when cryonics becomes instrumental to health insurance and when there are cryonics facilities in hospitals throughout the world. - I was a model and learned about photography as an artistic means of viewing the world and presenting this image-value interpretation for the public's emotional reaction. - I was in the Merchant Marines and sailed on vessels performing oil rig operations. My job was chief cook and I survived numerous obstacles, including a hurricane in the gulf of Mexico. - I owned a commercial design firm. I learned that it is great fun to have lots of clients and not so much fun getting them to pay their bill. - I was a performer. I learned how to be on stage and deliver a line. Because it is not a "hot topic" or a business. That depends on what you mean by God. In the strictest sense of religious interpretations of the universe, life and evolution, no. I value the philosophy of Extropy's value of critical thinking, the process of questioning all beliefs, including one's own, the idea of working toward positive outcomes of technology. Yes, but not coercively. Yes, biology will continue to evolve. Will it still be biology - a bit of a hybrid. Regarding the man or the woman. Yes, in many ways it is a model because I am biological and have a biological physiology and psychology. My psychology is filled with all sorts of historical mythic lore. However, because I am transhumanist I have learned to erase some of the sink holes and to develop new myths, new concepts concerning man and woman. While I am human, I am enjoying my womanhood. Other than my Zen rose garden, I suppose that I find great reward from the friendships I have nurtured throughout my life. On a professional level, that as an artist, I saw early on a gap in culture - that of a transhumanist worldview regarding radical life extension - and that this gap needed to be filled and that by trespassing from the artworld into the world of science and biotechnologies, including nano, I have been able to do a little something to close the gap. Wasting time. Being hurtful to anyone. Not dying. The language I have the strongest affinity to is "design". Next, it is certain types of music that makes me move rhythmically, the smell of fresh mountain air after a snow, engaging in laughter with friends and the enormous feeling of love. Yes. I would learn about there system - beliefs, etc., before I intruded into their culture. Provide possibilities and opportunities. I am not a mathematician. Assembler processing for producing tools, materials for people in need, especially in developing countries and areas where water is scarce, food is decays, housing is unavailable, etc. Nanomedicine. A deep sadness at the onslaught of death and the emotional devastation it leaves behind. Learn how to market radical life extension through design methodologies. It would be a marvelous means to keep on living ... :-) Space-related and consciousness-related. I'm not terribly invested in overt Utopian visions. I am too pragmatic. Also, I am not entirely convinced that our current human consciousness is capable of determining what is or is not suffering for or to all other life forms. First, let's see what happens when humans evolve. I think it has become a belief rather than an field of investigation. My assumption is that it will happen incrementally. Immersive cognition. Too many to state. Stop being so wasteful and accumulating so many toys. Other than that, nanotechnology has great promise. Yes. Pride and Prejudice, 1990s version. The Zen of peace and kindness. Whatever means gets the job done in the most efficient/effective way with the least amount of discomfort to anyone. Skype "Can't Get No Sleep" by Insomniac. Favorite styles of music are Mo-Town, Violin Concertos, Tiesto DJ sounds.
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