Hello everyone,<br><br>I'm new to the list as I've just recently discovered transhumanism and extropism and it's all very interesting and I think it aligns very well with my own evaluative standpoint: being both a natural optimist and a technophile (though the latter requires qualifications that I don't want to bore you with right now).
<br><br>But I saw on the web page on the <a href="http://extropy.org">extropy.org</a> site about an IRC server however I haven't been able to log on. Is the server still online?<br><br>Also, I was wondering if anyone knows of a paper or website somewhere on the concept of extropy. I know on Wikipedia it's said that extropy is no more than a metaphor, but it seems to me that there has to be something more to it. I mean, how is it that life could emerge at all in a decaying universe proceeding towards entropy? It seems to me that everything that has been accomplished so far on this planet, human life itself as an interesting spectacle, must have required the "consumption" of a great deal of order elsewhere. So I'm thinking in the universe there must be some phenomena, like a machine in nature, that does just--consumes a great deal of order in the universe to produce certain peak regions of accelerated growth and extropy. I don't know, does anyone know more about this?
<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Kevin<br>