From: Steve (steve@multisell.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 02:43:42 MST
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:06:49 -0500
From: "gts" <gts@optexinc.com>
Subject: Re: duck me!
>It is always a process of becoming."
> -Carl Rogers, from his book classic book _On Becoming a Person_
>Carl Rogers is perhaps the greatest of all humanist psychologists. As
>extropians we should not forget our humanist roots.
Agree with this, I don't think trans/ post-humans have any particular
new morality that goes beyond the best of humanism. Self-actualisation
remains our aim.
Those people who refer to "Post-humanISM" are generally ignorant
of their terms. Humanism as a philosophy is anti-supernatural & pro-
rational. We have already become post-human by historical accident
as much as by personal effort ..... the singularity of the Industrial
Revolution
brought the huge cultural changes, and the end of human-beingness
about more than philosophers.
What our task is now is to avoid a lapse into the pit of conventionality.
Steve Nichols
www.posthuman.tv
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