[ExI] REMINDER – Ben Goertzel on The Cosmist Manifesto in Teleplace, September 12, 10am PST

[Giulio Prisco]

REMINDER – Ben Goertzel on The Cosmist Manifesto in Teleplace,
September 12, 10am PST
http://telexlr8.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/reminder-ben-goertzel-on-the-cosmist-manifesto-in-teleplace-september-12-10am-pst/
http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/09/reminder-ben-goertzel-on-cosmist.html

Ben Goertzel will give a talk in Teleplace on his recent book “A
Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age” on
Sunday September 12, 2010, at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm CET).
Those who already have Teleplace accounts for teleXLR8 can just ahow
up at the talk. There are a limited number of seats available for
others, please contact me if you wish to attend.

A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age, by
Ben Goertzel, has been published by Humanity+ Press and is available
on Amazon. See the review “A Cosmist Manifesto, an Advocacy“ on H+
Magazine. See also the online version of the Cosmist Manifesto. In the
picture above, Ben Goertzel (first from left) in a Teleplace meeting.

The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian
Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel’s “Cosmist Manifesto” gives it new life
and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel presents
it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western
and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and science, it is
a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes sense
now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its
transformative impact as the future unfolds. Among the many topics
considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading, immortality,
psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena,
alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist
perspective is shown to make plain old common sense of even the
wildest future possibilities.

Ben Goertzel, Chair of Humanity+, is founder and CEO of two computer
science firms Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC, and of the non-profit
AGIRI (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute). He has
served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics,
computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New
Zealand. He is author of two books focused on the future of technology
and society Creating Internet Intelligence (Plenum, 2001) and The Path
to Posthumanity (Academica, 2006). He serves as Director of Research
for the Singularity Institute for AI.

Teleplace is one of the best 3D applications for telework, online
meetings, group collaboration, and e-learning in a virtual 3D
environment (v-learning). Those who already have Teleplace accounts
for teleXLR8 can just ahow up at the talk. There are a limited number
of seats available for others, please contact me if you wish to
attend.