<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Sabrina Ballard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Could someone please clarify the difference between singularitarianism<br>and transhumanism?</span></blockquote><div><br></div>All Singularitarians are Trans-humanists but not all Trans-humanists are Singularitarians, I disagree with Max in that I don't think the distinction is important in the point that Lanier was trying (unsuccessfully) to make, that such ideas are religious. It's well know that people with Trans-humanists ideas don't tend to be great fans of religion, so when they want to get our goat they call us religious. It get's old.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>