[extropy-chat] PHIL: Derrida and Deconstruction

[Ben Goertzel]

I don't know Derrida's work well, but I would recommend Jean
Baudrillard's book "Simulations" as a very amusing work of
postmodernism...

Basically, Baudrillard's message is that the whole world is virtual
anyway.  Everything is a simulation, and this has been the
psychological and cultural reality for decades now.  So creating a
physical simulation and uploading ourselves into it (something he does
not discuss) would in his view not be a signficant deviation...

-- Ben G

On 10/31/06, nvitamore at austin.rr.com <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Has anyone spent time reading Jacques Derrida's philosophical views on
> Deconstruction?  If so, do you recognize *any* crossovers between
> deconstructivism and extropy, or transhumanism in general.
>
> Thanks,
> Natasha
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