[ExI] Singularity as a complex adaptive system - What does the environment look like?

[Natasha Vita-More]

At 11:23 AM 12/16/2007, you wrote:
>On 12/16/07, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>
> >  If you were to design an environment which includes NBIC advances as they
> > affect posthumanism, transhumanism, cyborgs, transhumans, posthumans, as
> > contingent and overlapping spheres, what would it look like?
>
>Natasha, do you really want a description of an environment that:
>
>"includes NBIC advances" as if we could actually imagine with
>significant certainty any such complex future scenario,

Well it is past, present and future.

If you have an environment (use a circle) and that environment is the 
"corpus" of "ideas" within which Human 2.0, Human 3.0, etc. are 
spawned and that environment contains all of transhumanism.  The 
environment has overlapping characteristics of humanism (another 
circle when is part in and part out of the corpus of ideas), and 
another overlapping circle which is the environment of scientific 
ideas which are spawned or interconnect within this corpus of ideas 
(this circle when is part in and part out of the corpus of ideas), 
and another overlapping circle of science fiction which are spawned 
or interconnect within this corpus of ideas (another circle when is 
part in and part out of the corpus of ideas).

What is this corpus of ideas called? It is not transhumanism, as 
transhumanism is one environment within it.  You could call it 
posthumanism, but posthumanism, as described and defined by various 
folks, is not accurate and lacks vision and imagination, not to 
mention a bibliography of literature pertaining to biotechnology, 
nanotechnology, etc.

In other words, if the singularity were a discontinuity of a series 
of reinforcing and balancing loops, what would that environment 
(corpus of ideas) be?  (Sure it could be Extropy, but maybe not.)

Natasha


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha<http://www.natasha.cc/> Vita-More
PhD Candidate,  Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in the Faculty 
of Technology,
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
University of Plymouth, UK
<http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture
<http://extropy.org/>Thinking About the <http://extropy.org/>Future

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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