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

[Joseph Bloch]

It's so obvious a notion it's profound when you see it written down.

There are a lot of other impulses behind >H, of course. Freedom comes to 
mind.

But there are, of course, currents within >H for whom Equality trumps 
Freedom as a driving force. But what both camps have in common is the 
pursuit of Survival. They just disagree as to how best to get there.

Joseph

Natasha Vita-More wrote:

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>> 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
>>
>>     Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More <http://www.natasha.cc/> 
>>     Cultural Strategist - Designer 
>>     President, Extropy Institute <http://www.extropy.org/> 
>>     Member, Association of Professional Futurists
>>     <http://www.profuturists.com/> 
>>     Founder, Transhumanist Arts & Culture
>>     <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>
>>
>>     /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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