I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to
this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing
and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.
Berkley (1685-1753)
citato da Nick Bostrom, Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up
Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University