<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 March 2012 11:55, Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote">What about "We are morally obligated to make all humanity to transcend?" <br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div><br>This makes me think, btw, of Egan's Diaspora scenario, where earth is inhabited by different posthuman cultures, including one kind or another of an uploaded polis, robotic ones, genetically-enhanced communities, even a few who have made use of technology to relinquish anthropomorphic "intelligence". <br>
<br>At a point in time, a threat is discovered that is going to sterilise the earth for good, and if my recollection is good, at least some of those who were not part of an uploaded polis are forced to upload - something which may well correspond to murder in their own view - out of some "moral obligation" to do so.<br>
<br>Now, this squarely falls in the *humanist* perspective, which has been dominant in the West for some 1,500 years now, that implies the existence of eternal, but above all universal and "objective", values that are the reflection of the mind of God or of some thinly revarnished secular avatars thereof, such as "natural law".<br>
<br>--<br>Stefano Vaj<br>