Khannea Suntzu

From Order of Cosmic Engineers

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Khannea Suntzu is a restless spirit, but very much smitten with what Second Life offers. Khani has been in Second Life since november 2005 and has been loosely (or less loosely) associated with Transhumanism, under whatever nom du jour it goes. In the context of Cosmic Engineers the interests of Khannea are relatively vocal, and have been unchanged for some time. She is unswervingly "digital person" as defined by Argent Bury and even though she often argues her physical self as being "not optimally happy", she considers her presentation online, in SL, largely disassociated from a her real world existence and will be perturbed if bothered in the real world with SL business - largely because she'd feel embarrassed.

"I would be like me dangling my intestines in your face, right?"

Khannea is interested primarily in making sure she lives in what she assumes are the two or more next unpleasantly turbulent decades. Khannea is deeply concerned about global resource depletion, the emergence of nanotechnology, power struggles, fundamentalist religions, nuclear weapons, poverty.

Khannea has lobbied for interpreting "the disparities between extreme afluence and poverty" as a germinating existential threat. Khannea is in favor of radical culling of extreme afluence and advocates a maximum income (..."in the 10+ million euro range"...) linked to a mimimum income, as defined in the constitution of a nation. Beyond that Khannea anticipates having fun with the emergence of ever more ingenuous games, 3D replication, biotechnology, robotics, life extension treatments, safe narcotics. Khannea has become a bit allergic to the topic of longterm expectations of humanity (especially argumenting specifics on jupiterbrain computronium and all that) since it's abstract material and Khani doesn't really dig abstraction.

Khannea has several neurological problems. This is central in her desire to see some radical improvements in both rejuvenation and treatments of deficiency. The ideal world of Khannea Suntzu, the person behind that endearing avatar, enters a future similar to "babylon 17" where longevity treatments were as casual as visiting a tanning salon and where bodies were as mutable as a jumble of slider bars.