[ExI] Transhumanist Declaration

[BillK]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Natasha Vita-More  wrote:
> The problem with these is that it makes the Transhumanist Declaration appear
> to be owned/written by WTA (e.g. the logo at the bottom of the declaration),
> which is incorrect.
>
>

Strange?   Internet sources (and I suspect the WTA) do think the WTA
developed it.

According to Nick Bostrom (one of many sources):
<http://jetpress.org/volume14/bostrom.html>
Quote:
The World Transhumanist Association was founded in early 1998 by Nick
Bostrom and David Pearce, to provide a general organizational basis
for all transhumanist groups and interests, across the political
spectrum. The aim was also to develop a more mature and academically
respectable form of transhumanism, freed from the "cultishness "
which, at least in the eyes of some critics, had afflicted some of its
earlier convocations. The two founding documents of the WTA were the
Transhumanist Declaration (see appendix), and the Transhumanist FAQ
(v. 1.0).[41] The Declaration was intended as a concise consensus
statement of the basic principle of transhumanism. The FAQ was also a
consensus or near-consensus document, but it was more ambitious in its
philosophical scope in that it developed a number of themes that had
previously been, at most, implicit in the movement. More than fifty
people contributed comments on drafts of the FAQ. The document was
produced by Bostrom but major parts and ideas were also contributed by
several others, including the British utilitarian thinker David
Pearce, Max More, the American feminist and disability rights activist
Kathryn Aegis, and the walking encyclopedia Anders Sandberg, who was
at the time a neuroscience student in Sweden.
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Are you perhaps remembering A Transhumanist Declaration ©1998 Max More
THE EXTROPIAN PRINCIPLES   Version 3.0 which was a different document?



BillK