[ExI] Transhumanist Declaration

[Natasha Vita-More]

WTA did not develop the Transhumanist Declaration or the FAQ.  These two
documents were the vision of a few people and written by a few and then
edited by a dozen or so people before WTA voted to adopt them.  So, there
were in existence prior to WTA's formation.

Bty, no, I was not referring to Max's Transhumanist Declaration of the
Extropy Principles.  Although this document is a viable Transhumanist
Declaration as is the Transhuman Statement written in 1982.

Best,
Natasha


Natasha Vita-More

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Subject: Re: [ExI] Transhumanist Declaration

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Natasha Vita-More  wrote:
> The problem with these is that it makes the Transhumanist Declaration 
> appear to be owned/written by WTA (e.g. the logo at the bottom of the 
> declaration), which is incorrect.
>
>

Strange?   Internet sources (and I suspect the WTA) do think the WTA
developed it.

According to Nick Bostrom (one of many sources):
<http://jetpress.org/volume14/bostrom.html>
Quote:
The World Transhumanist Association was founded in early 1998 by Nick
Bostrom and David Pearce, to provide a general organizational basis for all
transhumanist groups and interests, across the political spectrum. The aim
was also to develop a more mature and academically respectable form of
transhumanism, freed from the "cultishness "
which, at least in the eyes of some critics, had afflicted some of its
earlier convocations. The two founding documents of the WTA were the
Transhumanist Declaration (see appendix), and the Transhumanist FAQ (v.
1.0).[41] The Declaration was intended as a concise consensus statement of
the basic principle of transhumanism. The FAQ was also a consensus or
near-consensus document, but it was more ambitious in its philosophical
scope in that it developed a number of themes that had previously been, at
most, implicit in the movement. More than fifty people contributed comments
on drafts of the FAQ. The document was produced by Bostrom but major parts
and ideas were also contributed by several others, including the British
utilitarian thinker David Pearce, Max More, the American feminist and
disability rights activist Kathryn Aegis, and the walking encyclopedia
Anders Sandberg, who was at the time a neuroscience student in Sweden.
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Are you perhaps remembering A Transhumanist Declaration C1998 Max More
THE EXTROPIAN PRINCIPLES   Version 3.0 which was a different document?



BillK

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