From: Steve (steve@multisell.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 15:58:39 MDT
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:44:55 -0700
From: FutureQ <futureq@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: Coming Trends: Fading Extropy?
> The trouble with Taoism is that it's the
>ultimate luddite religion. The chinese could have developed rocketry to the
>point of world conquest and even perhaps taken humanity to space several
>thousand years ago but they didn't because Taoism teaches that nature is
>unchanging so why try? It would be interesting to see how readily or not
>transhumanism takes in China.
>FutureQ
Methinks this is unfair and inaccurate. Taoism is the way of infinite
change.
Rocketry and world conquest are probably undesirable ambitions, and space
colonisation is an expensive pipe-dream.
Transhumanism is long over by the way .... the Industrial Revolution
singularity
which brought about the transhuman-era ended with the solution to
Schopenhauer's
World-Knot (the M-B Problem) back in the 1980's ... and us Posthumans
emerged
20 or so years ago following this 200 year long transition phase.
Steve Nichols
http://www.multi.co.uk/extropia.htm
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