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At 09:23 AM 3/5/2007, Terry wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Transhumanism is a meme yet to
be tested in the world of ideas to see <br>
if it works to liberate the mind from psychological stress. If this <br>
meme's objective is extropy, why does it proclaims itself as absolutely
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infallible in connection with science when the latter does not claim
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absolute infallibility?</blockquote><br>
Infallibility? I think you have missed the point of both
transhumanism and extropy. <br><br>
A beneficial method for learning and gaining knowledge is through trial
and error. Problem solving, at its near best, is achieved through
testing theories and extracting what seems to work and then taking that
protocol further. Because we are living in an ever changing
environment, the very concept of perfect or perfection (or what you may
be assuming to be absolute infallibility) is a misnomer because achieving
such state would mean a stasis - and stasis is not an environment
conducive to learning and growth.<br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/">Planetary Collegium
</a>
<dd>Proactionary Principle Core Group,
<a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy
</a><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Advisory Committee,
</font><a href="http://www.pietronigro.com/zgac/">Zero Gravity Arts
Consortium <br><br>
</a>
<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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