[ExI] MAX MORE in Second Life yesterday

[Natasha Vita-More]

> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>
wrote:
> > They have to occur in complex adaptive
> > systems.  Further that "humans as they are known today are no longer
> > significant in shaping the world" is assumptive based on single-track
> > thinking that SI will occur outside of human and that humans will not be
a
> > part of the SI advance.
> >
> > My particular theory is that the SI will be combined human and
connective
> > intelligence - thus the posthuman, or whatever anyone wants to call it.
I
> > use posthuman because the term is familiar in academic literature.
> 
> Not only could I not agree more, but have sometimes the feelings that
> while postmodernist academia may have a too casual attitude towards
> what are the real technoscientific issues and state of the art and
> expected evolutions, at the same time concepts as "human",
> "existential", "natural", "artificial", "survival", "identity" are
> often taken in a too acritical, if not naive, sense by us of all.

Let's back up.  Are you familiar with my work?  If so you would know that I
have argued against Hayles and other academics concerning posthuman.  I have
introduced a different understanding of the term in academic circles, that
of the transhumanist understanding of posthuman. 

So, please understand my perspective when I say "posthuman" as I am a
transhumanist and for goodness sakes, I created "Primo Posthuman" and that
ought to be evidence enough that I am not part of the academic postmodernist
group nor do I subscribe with how the term posthuman has been used in
academia but have introduced to academia my own philosophical understanding
of posthuman which stems from the "Transhuman Statement" I wrote in 1982.

Natasha