[ExI] YES! Hard-core transhumanist splinter groups yearning forcyber-heaven

[Max More]

Spike wrote:

>The central point of transhumanism is the notion that it is 
>physically possible to upload sentience into another substrate.  I

I think it's a serious error to say that. Transhumanism is a 
philosophy that seeks to continually overcome human limits, including 
mortality and the cognitive and emotional limits imposed by the human 
constitution as it naturally evolved. Personally, I think that 
uploading is feasible in principle and I don't have any personal 
identity based objections to it, but it is only one possible path in 
the future. You can be (and remain) a transhumanist if you expect 
uploading to be impossible or deadly or if it turns out not to be feasible.

'nuff said. I see that Damien and Natasha both made similar points.

Let's be careful not to identify transhumanism essentially with any 
one path or technology.

Max



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Max More, Ph.D.
Strategic Philosopher
The Proactionary Project
Extropy Institute Founder
www.maxmore.com
max at maxmore.com
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