From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 13:08:03 MDT
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, J. R. Molloy wrote:
> The Beginning of a New History
> http://www.pugwash.org/reports/pim/pim17.htm
> Francis Fukuyama and Jacques Attali
> Among scientists there is a
> general assumption dating back to Francis Bacon that scientific progress is
> for the better of all mankind. Perhaps the time is coming, thanks to
> arguments by scientists like Bill Joy,
> It is not the pursuit of knowledge and technology that is dangerous. The real
> danger is the possibility that scientific progress will put powerful
> technologies in the hands of religious fanatics whose exceptionalist beliefs
> enable them to perpetrate mass destruction.
Pope Roboticus I would like to know what the Prophets of Scientism will
say about taboos, anathema subjects and HERESY so that he can build all of
this into his robo-catechism. What makes the fundamental values of
robo-fundamentalists superior to those of other religions? If robo sapiens
are going to take over from homo sapiens, the new dominant species of this
planet would like to know the TRUTH of its superiority.
POC OTOH believes in the separation of a totally automated superhuman
"machinery" of State from a totally automated superhuman machinery of
"Church".
POC
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