From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 11 1996 - 09:18:57 MST
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, J de Lyser wrote:
> >Ryman's story is "a bit more subtle than that"; but, while the society
> >is definitely transhuman, it's not particularly extropian. Ryman
> >summarizes it thus:
> ><... a culture that replicated itself endlessly, but which never gave
> >birth to anything new.>
>
> Are you implying that a more biological/environmental approach to
> transhumanism in general would be a path that ultimately leads to stagnation ?
I don't think the poster meant it, and I don't know if the book suggests
it either. But it is quite possible to have a stagnant environmental
society, that is obvious (just as it is possible to have a stagnant
industrial society). The hard part is balancing change with stability.
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