[extropy-chat] Transhumanism: Teilhard de Chardin - Truth or Dare

[BillK]

On Sat Nov 01, 2003 09:14 am Natasha Vita-More wrote:
>> Eli: Transhumanism doesn't need, and can't have, and shouldn't have,
>> its own model of evolution, any more than there should be a
>> transhumanist model of physics.

> I think your argument is misplaced. Transhumanism is based on ideas
> about evolution that have been published and promoted for many years
> and continue to be published and promoted as the science and
> technology of new ideas surmount. These ideas are transhumanist
> because they, in their directive intent, are based on questioning
> traditional acceptance of a limited lifespan and recycling of the
> human spirit into a mystical landscape.
>

Heh! I think if I found myself arguing with a Bayesian logician like Eli
I would go and have a lie down till I felt better. :)

But you are not really arguing with him. All Eli is saying is that a
transhumanist car mechanic would fix your SUV exactly the same as a
redneck Ford mechanic would.

Similarly transhumanist information theory is no different to IBM
information theory.

A transhumanist might be thinking about how to use these existing fields
of science in future developments, but that doesn't change existing
academic disciplines.

BillK