[ExI] Fwd: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts

[darren shawn greer]

> You need to stay in more. "Rapture of the nerds" is a very old canard. Yeah, it's all pretty new to me. Difficult to give a believable reason why I missed all this stuff, but it's a good one. Just too personal to share in a public group.But the great thing about being new to something is the excitement and passion of discovery is fresh. Everyday I unearth some new idea, some new writer, some new opinion, some new advancement. And the group has really shown me that ideas developed in isolation are not incompatible with what is happening in the larger world. There really is an air of radical change about the planet now, and a shift in the way that humans think about themselves and the universe. In my early youth I always lamented that I never lived in a time like that. I was a Miniver Cheevy in reverse. Thanks to the ideas of transhumanism, posthumanism, a whole bunch of writers, and this list, I no longer feel that way. I'd rather be a nerd waiting for a singularity (even if that is not exactly what I'm doing) than a Cheevy waiting for a time machine.Darren
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.-Alfred Lord Tennyson



> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:24:29 -0500
> From: thespike at satx.rr.com
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Fwd: [Body Hacking] Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts
> 
> On 8/17/2010 4:49 PM, darren shawn greer wrote:
> 
> > the rhetoric is entertaining me more than science.
> 
> > Such as Fuzzyfuzzyfungus's comment that "The singularity is to nerds
> > what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant wackjobs."
> 
> You need to stay in more. "Rapture of the nerds" is a very old canard. 
> It makes about as much sense, and contains about as much truth, as
> 
> Surgery and antibiotics are to medicine what the rapture is to 
> fundamentalist protestant wackjobs
> 
> Literacy is to geeks what the rapture is to fundamentalist protestant 
> wackjobs
> 
> Fire and stone knapping are to Cro-Magnons what the rapture is to 
> fundamentalist protestant wackjobs
> 
> Spelling "whack jobs" correctly is to literate geeks what the rapture is 
> to fundamentalist protestant whack jobs
> 
> You can have hours of fun discovering these great insights!
> 
> Damien Broderick
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