On Nov 6, 2007 4:07 AM, Anna Taylor <<a href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">femmechakra@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've taken notice lately how Singularitarians,<br>Extropians and Transhumanists have somehow been<br>grouped together, was this intended by the groups?<br>...<br>My confusion lies is within the realm of<br>Transhumanism.
</blockquote><div><br>It is hard to offer an ultimate answer to those question (which is just fine, transhumanism being IMHO essentially a Stimmung), but were I to attempt to find an all-encompassing formula, I believe that it would be likely to be something about *radical self-determination* and the exalted freedom that *technological prometheism* is going to offer in this respect.
<br><br>Certainly there may be some tension between your own self-determination and that of others; between individual and collective self-determination; between "wet", biocentric tech orientations and "hard" tech orientations; between priorities given to intensity/enhancement and to duration/longevism; and so forth; and this actually makes for a "populated landscape" of H+ shades and nuances and trends, which is not so bad a thing at the end of the day, if the transhumanist worldview as a whole is actually to replace the dominant range of worldviews and ideologies.
<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br></div></div>