dirk bruere at neopax

A paper by James J. Hughes, Ph.D. concerning the current state of
Transhumanist politics in the wider context is now available on the
Consensus site at:
http://www.theconsensus.org/uk/principia/life/ThePoliticsofTranshumanism.htm

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Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millennium
http://www.theconsensus.org

davenalias

http://www.theconsensus.org/uk/principia/life/ThePoliticsofTranshumanism.htm

Let me guess... the first thing he will try and convince us of will be that
the euphemistically entitled 'tranhumanism' has nothing to do with Nazism
and Eugenics.....

wotan

A New World Order concept of a monotone coffee coloured
world of disenfranchised serfs. Or the "EU" by another
name.

bernxard

Ronald H. Coase The Firm, the Market, and the Law
David Friedman The Machinery of Freedom (2nd Ed.)
Kevin Kelly Out of Control
Friedrich Hayek The Constitution of Liberty
Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies
Julian Simon The Ultimate Resource (2nd ed.)
Julian Simon & Herman Kahn (eds) The Resourceful Earth
(More, 2000)

It proports to draw its inpiration from these authors of which at
least 5 out of 7 are 'chosen ones'. Perhaps this is the formation of
yet another monstrous ideological movement. Marxism, Communism,
Neo-conseravatism, Freudianism, Multiculuralism that will be coopted.
Genetic modification may be the racial and cultural battleground of
the future.

dirk bruere at neopax

Exactly the opposite.
A speciation into totally different forms of post-Humanity.

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Dirk

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mmaker

It has nothing to do with Nazism and Eugenics: quite the opposite, in
fact. The Nazis were determined to wipe out anyone who differed from
their view of an 'ideal' human, transhumanists want to allow people to
turn themselves into, well, whatever they want to be that's
technologically feasible. This is precisely why most authoritarians of
all kinds regard it as a bad and scary thing...

Mark

davenalias

You know different.

You're Geshels! Cf, Bear's EON series. I wouldn't mind being a
mile long spaceship shaped like a red and black marlin, and
naturally equipped with the most powerful fusion engines available
so I could go and explore the solar system.

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dirk bruere at neopax

http://www.theconsensus.org

dirk bruere at neopax

news:<bk2npj$o4jjk$1@ID-163212.news.uni-berlin.de>...

I suspect we'll hit the Singularity before we have that capacity, and
afterwards we'll have better things to do than use such primitive
technology!
--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millennium
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