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

Natasha Vita-More natasha at natasha.cc
Wed Jun 28 20:09:04 UTC 2006


>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:52:19 -0500
>To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>From: Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>
>Subject: SURVIVAL:  An impulse behind transhumanism?
>
>Someone asked me recently what the impulse behind transhumanism was.  I 
>said survival.
>
>If the driving force of transhumanism is an innate and informed desire to 
>improve the human condition, then survival would be an element of this 
>driver. But I am not sure if this is a chicken/egg thing.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Natasha
>
><http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
>Cultural Strategist - Designer
>President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
>Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
>Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture
>
>If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
>then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
>circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
>perspective. - Buckminster Fuller
>
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