[extropy-chat] MISSING: Full Coverage of Max and ExI inWikipedia's Transhumanism

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From: Giu1i0 

>Interested in the reference to Dante, that I was not aware of, I did a
>quick research:

It is in the Transhumanist FAQ at ExI's website and Transhumanist history
at TAC.

But is a worthwihile inquiry into relationships of words and how they are
used over time in conveying an ideal of man: 

"Dante's Paradiso is a successful journey into the mind, even if at the
outset the experience looms ineffably ahead. The "transhumanized" mind
(Par. I, 70) passes beyond human logic and its limits of time and space,
ultimately conceiving paradisal landscapes by the blending and
interpenetration of sights and sounds."

and as suggested by Rossi in "The Numinosum and the Brain:The Weaving
Thread of Consciousness":

"'the transfiguration of the subject' There is a change in the physical
appearance, akin to Dante’s 'transhumanized' into a god a kind of beauty."

and also by Arthos in "Dante, Michelangelo and Milton", London, Routledge
and Kegan Paul. [1963] 

"In the light of the Longinian view that through the sublime, achieved by
the artist from his own noble nature, the reader can be 'transhumanized,'
the author examines the works of the three artists in their relation to
divine principles. In a pithy chapter on Dante (pp. 18-49), ..."

ciao-
Natasha



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