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

[Arthur Breitman]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:23 PM, <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:

> For me, it is a philosophy with princples and is definitely a movement.
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May I submit a word who could be more fitting than movement, philosophy,
club, etc. "Spirit", much like in "the spirit of enlightenment". Although I
believe transhumanism may be all of the above, the word spirit is
sufficiently underused to be drafted for the purpose of describing
transhumanism.

My own vision of this spirit is a bowl of spaghetti, an apparently loose
collection of ideas who, on a closer look, are all tied together. More
specifically, at its core, ideas relating human nature transforming into its
own ideal, in particular through the use of technology.

Oh and since this is my first post on the list, that'll be my introduction
:)

Arthur


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> Quoting Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>:
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>  On 6/16/2010 5:12 PM, natasha at natasha.cc wrote:
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>>  But of course if I get booted out of the club on these grounds, I won't
>>>> be especially upset, or pine. It's just a label...
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>>  This isn't a club.
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>> Drat, did I say "club"? I meant "voted off the island." Wait, there
>> isn't an island?
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>> Actually, to all intents and purposes transhumanism *is* a club, or
>> rather a sort of loose federation of clubs where like-minded clumps of
>> neophilic, technophilic people (called "oddballs" by most of the
>> population) hang out together. It's not a political party or movement
>> or tendency or fraction, it isn't yet a formal philosophy or set of
>> design principles, it certainly isn't what the lazy journos call it, a
>> *cult*. What it is, I suppose, is what Sartre called existentialism
>> before he went Maoist--it's a humanism.
>>
>> Damien Broderick
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