In that long-ago decade of the 1980′s, Saul Kent and Mike Darwin in two separate reviews make the case that Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo has a transhumanist message:
Basically the film explores the idea of what you would do if you had the opportunity to instantiate your dream, like the character played by Mia Farrow in the film. Would you really want to abandon this world, if given the chance, and enter one where people substantially more attractive and functional than us live, and where they don’t grow old or suffer from poverty or die? (Notice the resemblance to the assumptions made by the cryonics argument.)
In that long-ago decade of the 1980′s, Saul Kent and Mike Darwin in two separate reviews make the case that Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo has a transhumanist message:
http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8506.txt
Basically the film explores the idea of what you would do if you had the opportunity to instantiate your dream, like the character played by Mia Farrow in the film. Would you really want to abandon this world, if given the chance, and enter one where people substantially more attractive and functional than us live, and where they don’t grow old or suffer from poverty or die? (Notice the resemblance to the assumptions made by the cryonics argument.)