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

[Amara Graps]

(apologies if you see this a second time. forgot the .lists)

Natasha:
>Was Teilhard de Chardin's bottom line a fervid attempt to realize
>a reunion of research and religion?

I think that de Chardin has written some useful interesting words
though. Like all things, you have to filter, and select what
is good for you.

Amara

 From my article:

Eternal City Grapsody #4 - Scales of Man: Adapting Technology to
Transhumans
April 23, 2003
http://www.transhumanism.com/articles_more.php?id=P380_0_4_0_C

"Teilhard de Chardin reminds us (3) of the creative value of
synthesis in evolution. He notes that technological fields have
demonstrated that there is definitely more in the molecule than in
the atom, more in the cell than in the molecule, more in society
than in the individual, and more in mathematical construction than
in calculations and theorems. At each further degree of combination,
something which is irreducible to isolated elements emerges in a
new structure."


(3) Teilhard de Chardin, Phenomenon of Man, Harper & Row, revised
English translation by Benjamin Wall (1975), p. 268.


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