[ExI] My confusion, the Kurzweil critique

[Stefano Vaj]

On Nov 6, 2007 4:07 AM, Anna Taylor <femmechakra at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I've taken notice lately how Singularitarians,
> Extropians and Transhumanists have somehow been
> grouped together, was this intended by the groups?
> ...
> My confusion lies is within the realm of
> Transhumanism.


It is hard to offer an ultimate answer to those question (which is just
fine, transhumanism being IMHO essentially a Stimmung), but were I to
attempt to find an all-encompassing formula, I believe that it would be
likely to be something about *radical self-determination* and the exalted
freedom that *technological prometheism* is going to offer in this respect.

Certainly there may be some tension between your own self-determination and
that of others; between individual and collective self-determination;
between "wet", biocentric tech orientations and "hard" tech orientations;
between priorities given to intensity/enhancement and to duration/longevism;
and so forth; and this actually makes for a "populated landscape" of H+
shades and nuances and trends, which is not so bad a thing at the end of the
day, if the transhumanist worldview as a whole is actually to replace the
dominant range of worldviews and ideologies.

Stefano Vaj
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