[extropy-chat] Greg's Project

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I think his whole presentation in our  rural setting where some families 
send their children to religeous private
schools so they get a "proper religeon based education" as well as 
subscribing to satellite TV but
blanking out all but a few channels is going to get some interesting 
comments.

Adding some novelty to the possible posthuman discoveries with 
suggestions that posthumans might
discover for example  that the universe is some sort of
Holodeck remotely programmable by quantum entanglement mechanisms  and that
indeed the holodeck characters may learn what lies "beyond"  by use of 
the same tool is an interesting thought.

For his presentation I have suggested that he look for  key changes in 
the speed,  complexity and efficiency
of communication (of information)  as the turning points from basic 
human development to transhuman development.
That would be the advent of miniturizable transisitors on a chip for 
computing,  the discovery of the
fundamental nature of DNA, and controlled  nuclear disintegration to 
begin the transhuman era in 1950.
For the posthuman turning point it might be the convergence of all 
current technologies into a single technology (the singularity)
because of  near instant communications between all the various 
components, and the first AI able to co-exist with
the humans of the day, as well as one novel energy source not currently 
in use today.

I also asked that he somehow make mention of possible catastrophic 
events which might
prevent the advent of posthumans and reduce humans back to a society 
without technology
.... an unforseen technological Faux-pas or a deliberate terrorist act by
a radical-green anti-techno-civilzation fundamentalist-religeous  group 
like "green anarchy".

MFJ

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

>Morris,
>I am so sorry to hear about your wife.
>Now on your son's schoolwork:
>These is an example of "intelligent objection" to transhumanism, but I
>think it indicates just lack of imagination. It is like a medieval
>person objecting to future traveling in a few hours to everywhere on
>the planet, like "it will eliminate the long journey toward the Holy
>Grail, the quest, the long lonely months on the road to reach the
>destination, ...". Indeed it does, but it is our way of travelling, we
>are used to it, and we have enough other interesting quests to fill
>our lives.
>Our posthuman childred will quickly become used to whatever magic
>technology will bring them, find ways to cope with it, and find new
>interesting things to do with their lives.
>G.
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>>How in a posthuman world where consciousness is uploaded and jacked
>>into, where hive mind global consciousness
>>composed of some melding of human mind and AI mind can the individual
>>human mind keep its personal
>>identity.
>>He is asking .....  if the singularity might destroy the spark of
>>humanity that has been both our best friend and worst enemy
>>for the last 100,000 years is there a  transhuman pathway which will
>>enhance  and preserve humanity instead of  assimilating and destroying it.
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