[extropy-chat] SURVIVAL: An impulse behind transhumanism?

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Natasha Vita-More wrote:

> Someone asked me recently what the impulse behind transhumanism was.  I 
> said survival.

That's one reason.

For me it is almost religious, silly as that may sound.
As far as we know today, the universe started with a bang
and chaos.  Gravity and expansion/cooling helped form
galaxies from the chaos, which led to stars and planets.
Some order from the chaos, at a large scale.

On planets (and other cold bodies), crystals formed and
eventually life, which increased order.  A few billion
years later, intelligence sprung into existance.

Who knows what will come next?

I think we should spread life and intelligence throughout
the universe, to trigger the next developments and find out. :)

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan