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At 11:23 AM 12/16/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 12/16/07, Natasha Vita-More
<natasha@natasha.cc> wrote:<br><br>
> If you were to design an environment which includes NBIC
advances as they<br>
> affect posthumanism, transhumanism, cyborgs, transhumans,
posthumans, as<br>
> contingent and overlapping spheres, what would it look
like?<br><br>
Natasha, do you really want a description of an environment
that:<br><br>
"includes NBIC advances" as if we could actually imagine
with<br>
significant certainty any such complex future scenario,</blockquote><br>
Well it is past, present and future. <br><br>
If you have an environment (use a circle) and that environment is the
"corpus" of "ideas" within which Human 2.0, Human
3.0, etc. are spawned and that environment contains all of
transhumanism. The environment has overlapping characteristics of
humanism (another circle when is part in and part out of the corpus of
ideas), and another overlapping circle which is the environment of
scientific ideas which are spawned or interconnect within this corpus of
ideas (this circle when is part in and part out of the corpus of ideas),
and another overlapping circle of science fiction which are spawned or
interconnect within this corpus of ideas (another circle when is part in
and part out of the corpus of ideas).<br><br>
What is this corpus of ideas called? It is not transhumanism, as
transhumanism is one environment within it. You could call it
posthumanism, but posthumanism, as described and defined by various
folks, is not accurate and lacks vision and imagination, not to mention a
bibliography of literature pertaining to biotechnology, nanotechnology,
etc. <br><br>
In other words, if the singularity were a discontinuity of a series of
reinforcing and balancing loops, what would that environment (corpus of
ideas) be? (Sure it could be Extropy, but maybe not.)<br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
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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, Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in the
Faculty of Technology,
<dd>School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, UK
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://extropy.org/">Thinking About the
</a><a href="http://extropy.org/">Future</a> <br><br>
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<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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