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Topic: Morphological freedom

	IEET Reprints - Dale Carrico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I use the term "morphological freedom" to describe the ways in which consensual prosthetic practices are enlarging the scope of personal freedom, even while they derange our expectations, demand new responsibilities, and introduce unprecedented possibilities for injustice, violation and harm against which we must struggle interminably.
		Morphological freedom is precisely never a matter of any coercive imposition of a normative body in the name of a moral standard of "health," but is an embrace of genetic, prosthetic and cognitive modification practices in the name of a proliferation of ways of being properly and meaningfully in the world.
		Morphological freedom prevails to the extent to which discernible differences among peers arise from consensual prosthetic practices of self-determination or self-creation, rather than being imposed or unduly duressed by conditions of exploitation, violence or ignorance (any of which might broadly mobilize responsible intervention).
	ieet.org /writings/Carrico20050401BH.htm (1891 words)

	A MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF AVIAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
		METHODS Morphological space.--Our analysis is based on the position of each member of a community in an n- dimensional morphological hyperspace of which the axes are the logarithms of n measurements.
		Morphological characters.--In this analysis, we have described morphological space by eight charac- ters, chosen according to availability of published data, ease of measurement, and lack of redundancy.
		Morphological separation and ecological overlap were inversely related in small communities, but this relationship was less pronounced in larger assemblages.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v097n02/p0321-p0338.html (10995 words)

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		Morphological Rules Morphological rules analyze the phonetic (or phonological) shape of their input (a lexical entry) into one or more substrings, and output a lexical entry whose phonetic shape is the concatenation of one or more phonological substrings.
		Morphological Rules have one or more subrules, which apply disjunctively to a given form: the first subrule to match a given form is the only subrule which can apply.
		Likewise, the morphological rule for plural affixation would require that the lexical entry which serves as its input be unifiable with the feature number (singular) (so as not to pluralize a noun already marked plural); the output of this rule would assign the feature number (plural).
	www.sil.org /computing/hermitcrab/6Morpher.doc (13910 words)

	amor mundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I use the term "morphological freedom" to describe the ways in which consensual prosthetic practices are enlarging the scope of freedom, even while they derange our expectations, demand new responsibilties, and introduce unprecedented possibilties as well of injustice, violation, and harm.
		From the perspective of morphological freedom it seems to me the standard of "recovery" is always worrisomely conservative, naturalizing some contingent standard of proper health as more desirable than indefinitely many alternate possibilities.
		Morphological freedom prevails to the extent to which discernible differences among peers arise from consensual prosthetic practices of self-determination or self-creation, rather than being imposed or unduly durressed by conditions of exploitation, violence, or ignorance (any of which might broadly mobilize responsible intervention).
	amormundi.blogspot.com /2005/03/morphological-freedom-and-conservatism.html (951 words)

	Morphological Freedom – Why We not just Want it, but Need it
		Morphological freedom doesn’t threaten diversity, as has been suggested repeatedly by critics of genetic modification or other forms of physical modification, but in my opinion would have quite the opposite effect.
		Just as there are positive arguments for morphological freedom, implying why it would be beneficial to regard as a basic human right, there are also negative arguments showing why not accepting morphological freedom as a basic right would have negative effects.
		Taking the step to full morphological freedom creates a far simpler ethical guideline, which both protects those who do not wish to change, those who are differently bodied and those wanting to change their bodies.
	www.nada.kth.se /~asa/Texts/MorphologicalFreedom.htm (4427 words)

	Liberty - Definition of Liberty by Webster Dictionary
		Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.
		A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.
		The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other.
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/liberty (490 words)

	Encyclopedia: Morphological freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim.
		Procreative liberty is a term refering to the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control ones reproductive capacity.
		Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an intellectual and cultural movement analyzing and supporting morphological freedom and the use of new sciences and technologies to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morphological-freedom (337 words)

	Morphological freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morphological freedom is, according to neuroscientist Anders Sandberg, "an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires."
		Anders Sandberg, Morphological Freedom -- Why We not just Want it, but Need it
		Dale Carrico, Morphological Freedom and the Conservatism of "Recovery"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morphological_freedom (89 words)

	TransVision 2001 - Conference Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Morphological Freedom: why we not just want it, but need it.
		Surprisingly often, personal freedoms are circumscribed when it comes to the freedom of modifying or owning one's body.
		I take a look at the current views on morphological freedom, where technology and culture are leading us and discuss whether democracies can afford not to support far-reaching morphological freedom.
	www.transhumanismus.de /TV2001/program.html (2257 words)

	Eudoxa: Eudoxa Policy Study #1: Morphologic Freedom
		The freedom to make decisions about what changes to apply or not to apply, morphological freedom; is derived from traditional natural rights though.
		It is a solid moral guide light for policymakers trying to navigate away from infringements on individual rights in each particular case.
		Morphologic freedom will help healthcare organizations, public and private, to design suitable healthcare solutions for the individual.
	www.eudoxa.se /content/archives/2003/10/eudoxa_policy_s_3.html (139 words)

	News for a Synergic Earth :
		From the right to freedom and the right to one’s own body follows that one has a right to modify one’s body.
		If my pursuit of happiness requires a bodily change -- be it dying my hair or changing my sex -- then my right to freedom requires a right to morphological freedom.
		Morphological freedom is the right to modify oneself.
	www.synearth.net /2001/12/20.html (448 words)

	Person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Personhood theory has become a pivotal issue in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics.
		While historically most humans did not enjoy full legal protection as "persons" (women, children, non-landowners, minorities, slaves, etc.), from the late 18th through the late 20th century being born as a member of the human species gradually became secular grounds for an appeal for basic rights of liberty, freedom from persecution, and humanitarian care.
		Since modern movements emerged to oppose animal cruelty (and advocate vegetarian or vegan lifestyles) and theorists like Turing have recognized the possibility of artificial minds with human-level competence, the identification of personhood protections exclusively with human species membership has been challenged.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Person (1994 words)

	THE UNIFICATION OF PHYSICS - Physics
		The core of morphological economics is to introduce the mental factor of human being into economics so as to create mental morphological economics.
		Morphological psychology (theory of micro-vibration) is to combine morphology with psychology, i.e.
		I firstly regard the current non-physical degree of freedoms as physical degree of freedoms (classical Abel normal field and non-Abel normal field as well as non-physical degree of freedoms in quantum field theory).
	www.freewebs.com /winstonlee/seekingagent.htm (11730 words)

	[Paleopsych] BH: A Dose of the New Medical Reality
		A Dose of the New Medical Reality http://www.betterhumans.com/Print/index.aspx?ArticleID=2005-04-01-1 The debate over Terri Schiavo highlights emerging dilemmas of morphological freedom as medicine changes our lives and limits By Dale Carrico 4/1/2005 2:47 PM On Thursday morning, March 31, 2005, [8]Terri Schiavo died quietly in a Florida hospice.
		The person who Terri Schiavo had been ceased to exist 15 years before, according to the testimony of her husband and many who knew her, as well as the [9]best determination of credible doctors and scientists.
		Consensual prosthetic practices The process of "life" in medical technocultures is one of ongoing practices of genetic, prosthetic and cognitive modification in pursuit of personal meanings, responsibilities and pleasures that are bound to strain against the imposition of normative conceptions of "wellness," however construed.
	lists.paleopsych.org /pipermail/paleopsych/2005-April/002608.html (1825 words)

	Freedom - Definition of Freedom by Webster Dictionary
		The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
		Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
		Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/freedom (122 words)

	amor mundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Morphological freedom is not a commitment to a coercive imposition of a normative body in the name of "health" but precisely an embrace of genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification practices in the name of a proliferation of ways of being in the world.
		Prosperity is connected to freedom, in that it makes us free to consume, but it is not the same thing, in that one can be rich but as unfree as a Victorian tycoon's wife.
		Libertarians try to get around this fact that freedom is not the only good thing by trying to reduce all other goods to it through the concept of choice, claiming that everything that is good is so because we choose to partake of it.
	amormundi.blogspot.com /2005_03_01_amormundi_archive.html (13233 words)

	Hermit Crab Parsing Engine Specification
		Morphological rules analyze the phonetic (or phonological) shape of their input (a lexical entry) into one or more substrings, and output a lexical entry whose phonetic shape is the concatenation of one or more phonological substrings.
		Sequences of phonetic segments in a morphological rule are specified in terms of their phonetic features.
		Morphological rules may be written in Hermit Crab for compounding and incorporation processes, i.e.
	www.sil.org /computing/hermitcrab/6Morpher.html (14342 words)

	Keep Your Laws Off My Body \| Betterhumans > Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But I cannot remember if it was in a rally decrying sodomy laws still on the books in Georgia, where I lived at the time, or in a march to defend a woman's right to choose against conservative legal assaults.
		I judge the conceptual and strategic resources available to the feminist culture of choice far more relevant and more robust to the delineation and defense of what I am calling morphological freedom than, say, the comparably anemic "negative liberty" of the libertarian.
		Human dignity, surely, is not diminished by a proliferation of the choices available to us, nor by the spectacle of the play of the choices we make.
	www.betterhumans.com /Columns/Column/tabid/79/Column/274/Default.aspx (1091 words)

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		Peircean vagueness is not a state but a process of formation, which = is to say, Nature retains the potentiality of freedom of morphological = formation.
		Peircean vagueness is not a state but a process of = formation,=20 which is to say, Nature retains the potentiality of freedom = of=20 morphological formation.
		So, this means that because of that freedom, that basic asymmetry = between=20 the three relations, and between the model and the particular....., = Nature=20 retains the ability to come up with both a new mediate model, and = therefore, new=20 particular interpretations (outputs)...and...new morphological forms.
	necsi.org:8100 /lists/complex-science/Message/7397-P.txt (533 words)

	Moyer \| DNA Fingerprinting of Floral Crops by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism: Poinsettia
		Poinsettia breeders evaluate morphological characteristics such as bract color, growth habit, and time to flower to fulfill the patent requirements.
		Those cultivars that could not be distinguished with the set of fragments are easily separated by morphological traits; they are most often color sports of one another.
		Those cultivars that are the most difficult to distinguish morphologically, such as the many red cultivars in the study, were differentiated with AFLP fingerprinting.
	www.cals.ncsu.edu /plantpath/people/faculty/moyer/moyer_jw/posters/poinsettia/poinset_aflp.html (653 words)

	Cowan on morphology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Cowan argues that for maximal freedom from syntactic ambiguity, words need to be self-segregating.
		He also argues that for maximal freedom from morphological ambiguity, morphemes need to be self-segregating.
		In Lojban the semantic structure derived from the unambiguous syntactic structure is unambiguous.
	wiw.org /~jkominek/lojban/9306/msg00012.html (140 words)

	The Influence of Latin on Old English
		Consider, for example, the semantic loan OE cniht for L discipulus, in which native OE cniht, "boy" or "servant," assumes the additional sense of L discipulus, "disciple." Such translations are abundant in the OE lexicon.
		Equally prevalent are loan translations, in which a L compound word is translated using morphologically equivalent native elements: e.g.
		Like loan translations, loan creations translate the L word using native elements but with greater morphological freedom: e.g.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/1001Moore.htm (774 words)

	Sentient Developments: 07/01/2002 - 07/31/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Guarantee morphological freedom and bodily autonomy; people should have a right to change and control their minds and bodies, including the right to take drugs, have themselves frozen, opt for physician-assisted suicide, and use germinal choice technologies on themselves and their children
		Gould was a proponent of the punctuated equilibria theory, while Dawkins prefers the gradualist approach and talks of morphological fitness peaks.
		This would result in a morphological fitness peak, where we would remain relatively unchanged for a long time.
	sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com /2002_07_01_sentientdevelopments_archive.html (3869 words)

	Physical Enhancement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The important thing now isn't freedom of information, but freedom of form, freedom to mutate and modify your body.
		To become healthy and strong, plain diet and exercise work quite well, while various therapies, surgery, genetic engineering and bionics are necessary for the more radical changes.
		Since transhumanists seek morphological freedom, it is likely that in a transhuman future the form of the trans- or post-human body will be extremely variable and individual, just as our clothing is today.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Individual/Body (325 words)

	Fight Aging!: Opposition and Expanding the Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I have argued in many forums that there is little intellectual basis for laws against innovations such as human cloning, which liberals should accept as a legitimate option for those who feel a need or preference for it.
		Life extension and morphological freedom need to presented as a civil rights movement.
		We also need to separate the issue of morphological freedom from that of reproductive issues.
	www.fightaging.org /archives/000270.php (1077 words)

	Democratic Transhumanism
		Cultural conservatives are generally nationalists, ethnic chauvinists or racists, religious conservatives, and opponents of women’s equality, sexual freedom and civil liberties.
		As Amartya Sen has ably argued, true freedom for real people (as opposed to abstract Lockeian free men) requires access to health care, universal education, and the amelioration of social inequality.
		Morphological freedom, the ability to change one’s body, including one’s abilities, weight, gender and racial characteristics, will reduce body-based oppressions (disability, fat, gender and race) to aesthetic prejudices.
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/DemocraticTranshumanism.htm (9133 words)

	Mailing List complex-science@necsi.org Message 7397 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This asymmetry permits innovative adaptations to context; it permits a responsive model and an adaptive particular....which is something that a system without this freedom, cannot provide.
		Peircean vagueness is not a state but a process of formation, which is to say, Nature retains the potentiality of freedom of morphological formation.
		So, this means that because of that freedom, that basic asymmetry between the three relations, and between the model and the particular....., Nature retains the ability to come up with both a new mediate model, and therefore, new particular interpretations (outputs)...and...new morphological forms.
	necsi.org:8100 /Lists/complex-science/Message/7397.html (219 words)

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