From: "Francois-Rene Rideau" <fare@tunes.org>
> How do extropians envision transition from mankind
> to whatever posthuman future awaits us?
> What are the documented scenarios that have been considered?
You might consider this as a starting point:
Max's Reading List
http://www.walrus.com/~dmax/reading/reading.html
How We Became PostHuman - The title of this scholarly yet remarkably accessible slice of contemporary cultural history has a whiff of paradox about it: what can it mean, exactly, to say that we humans have become something other than human? The answer, Katherine Hayles explains, lies not in ourselves but in our tools. Ever since the invention of electronic computers five decades ago, these powerful new machines have inspired a shift in how we define ourselves both as individuals and as a species.
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--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
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