[ExI] ARTS - Extropian poetry

[John Grigg]

Ivor, I am really looking forward to reading some of your transhumanist
poetry! And I will definitely be reading your upcoming sf novel...

John  : )

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:31 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Good!  Keep up updated on the status of your book.  It really pains me to
> think of the Amazon rainforest and all the construction.  bill w
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> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:21 AM Ivor Brians via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> All, as a further introduction…
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>> When I first looked up ‘extropian’ years ago, I thought, “that’s me!” I
>> had always been introspective and would ponder why things are the way they
>> are and why they are not better. I started exploring Eastern philosophies,
>> read some sci-fi, looked at some writings of Nietzsche and thought of our
>> continuing technological advances and thought, ‘the answers are all
>> here’—some covered in dogma and corrupted or mistranslated or misunderstood
>> or resisted, but the they are all here. So now, my external purpose is to
>> in some way, even a small incremental way, to help move the human world
>> onto a more sustainable and just path (just for all life).
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>> I’m working on my first book, sort of a Rainforest-meets-advanced aliens
>> with a scientist hero, indefinite lifespans, a sister-world where residents
>> grow blank-brain clones for transferring their consciousness to every few
>> decades (and enjoy whatever genetic enhancements they choose which have
>> been recently developed). It is a sort of save-the-world book in which I’ve
>> woven a set of principles which I believe, if followed, would end all war.
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>> I am also a tropical rainforest conservationist and advocate, a ‘haunter
>> of forests’ or ‘nemophilist’.
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>> Well, that’s all for now (sorry, you asked for it…) ��
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>> Ivor Peter Brians
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