From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 09:38:35 MST
Steve wrote:
[gts wrote:]
>>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.
It seems so.
I think if people here could see that we are always in a process of
becoming -- toward self-actualization as that term may be defined in
conventional or extropian terms -- then people here could see that these
supposed paradoxes of identity are merely the consequences of false
premises.
i.e.,
Each person is in a process of becoming a new person at each passing
moment. If a person were to branch into two people then each of those
two people would in turn be different people at each passing moment,
each of them also always in a process of becoming a new person. This is
the resolution of the paradoxes.
-gts
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