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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
why not assume we can "fix" people's psychology to?
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This rather defeats the object, since (at least as far as I am concerned) the aim would be to prolong my consciousness, not to prolong a version of my consciousness which has been altered by some group of other people (whoever 'we' is).
Besides, I'm not sure that this is anywhere near as big a problem as you suggest. I've known some very innovative and engaged old people, and some very closed-minded and conservative young people and I suspect that these traits are determined at the individual level and not by age.
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