From: Avatar Polymorph (way@warehouse.net)
Date: Sun Aug 23 1998 - 15:25:03 MDT
Anders Sandberg writes:
Sentists, and some other transhumanism-like groups, appear to be
basically mystical: knowledge about the future can be achieved through
non-rational insight.
Strictly speaking, it is transhumanists who are being non-rational, by
not acknowledging the nature of boosting. PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS. ALL BEINGS
ARE CAPABLE OF BEING BOOSTED BY MIXTURES OF APPLICABLE NEUROLOGICAL
MODIFICATION SYSTEMS, FOR EXAMPLE DNA COMPUTERS, DENDRIMER POLYMER DNA,
INTRA-CELLULAR NANOTECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTED NON-'ORGANIC' NEURAL
CIRCUITRY. Transhumanists fail to focus on this issue, despite being
more logical than most human beings currently around... why?
Politically, one has to say it has something to do with the peculiar
American historical condition, the 50 million Americans who live in
wretched poverty and the fact that traditionally they have appropriated
other people's lands by force (like most societies, including
Australia). I can only hypothesize that they see physical space as
limited - and possibly virtual space as well - and therefore wish to
scramble to the top of some hypothesized 'heap' before the rest. This
partially explains their lack of spiritual or MORAL discussion or
ETHICAL discussion regarding various issues, although extropian means
growth-orientated and positivistic to me. Only for everyone.
AP
29 after Armstrong
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