[ExI] CALL: H+ call for papers

[hkhenson]

At 12:48 PM 2/19/2009, you wrote:

>Some of us find this challenging.  If you don't, so what?  Don't get
>your knickers all twisted about it.

I went looking on their web site to see if the meeting was funded by 
the John Templeton foundation, which for some reason seems to have it 
in for transhumanism.  At least they don't show up on a fast search.

I wonder how a proposed paper, "Does successful transhumanism mean 
the end of religions?" would go over.

I could definitely make such a case.  Presumably successors who were 
at least "weakly godlike" (to invoke Charles Stross) would have 
little use for religion.

Such a paper could get into the EP case (cases) why religion is a 
species typical trait and why we might design it out if its root is 
in stone age population control via war.

I would be arrested if I went to Canada, so if there is anyone going 
who would like to co author or give the paper, let me know.

Keith