X-Message-Number: 16013 Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 06:22:40 -0700 From: Natasha Vita-More <> Subject: Recent Eulogy re FM Friends, Having known FM for many years, I feel quite sure that FM would, above all, want to make certain that his ideas be preserved alive and intact. While he shared many ideas with many futurists and enjoyed rigorous creative discussions about the future, he had his own ideology as he expressed in his UpWingers philosophy which helped to carve his ideas about transhumans. In the recent esteemed Cryonics magazine, there was a eulogy written as part of the ongoing encomium to FM. However respectful of that eulogy and its author, it did contain a misrepresentation of FM's work which must be corrected. FM did not father the extropian philosophy or movement. FM, I believe, would want it to be made known that even though he made enormous contributions in establishing a value system for transhumans, he did not have a role in the development of the extropian philosophy. Thank you, Natasha Vita-More Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16013