01-14-2020, 05:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2020, 06:00 PM by Eric the Green.)
EXTROPIANISM — The evolving transhumanist philosophy of extropy.
"Extropianism is a transhumanist philosophy. The Extropian Principles define a specific version or "brand" of transhumanist thinking. Like humanists, transhumanists favor reason, progress, and values centered on our well being rather than on an external religious authority. Transhumanists take humanism further by challenging human limits by means of science and technology combined with critical and creative thinking. We challenge the inevitability of aging and death, and we seek continuing enhancements to our intellectual abilities, our physical capacities, and our emotional development. We see humanity as a transitory stage in the evolutionary development of intelligence. We advocate using science to accelerate our move from human to a transhuman or posthuman condition. As physicist Freeman Dyson has said: "Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word."
I favor transhumanism more or less as Nietzsche first defined it, and it goes back to the romantics. To become the overman requires a spiritual journey, not so much a scientific technology. It requires developing our human potential. I don't oppose technology, but do not agree that it is the key to becoming more than human. That is an ethical, psychological, spiritual pursuit. To be transhuman in the new age perspective I uphold is to be able to manifest God as ourselves. The human potential movement begun in the 2T Awakening is the path to follow for a genuine transhumanism.
I agree an external religious authority is not an appropriate central value for humanity, or for going beyond human.
I challenge the inevitability of aging and death, not only by using science, but by understanding the afterlife, reincarnation and between lives.
I agree with developing our abilities, including spiritual abilities.
Your tendency to discount the value of Nature and the dangers of climate change go against my philosophy. We must respect Nature, even if we can transcend it in some ways. Nature is a value in itself, and teaches us a great deal, as the romantics and transcendentalists taught us and the greens of today proclaim. Nature teaches us that life and evolution grows from within outward, and is not made like a machine or the result of natural selection alone. And so it will continue to be. To expand as humans, we must honor and expand the sources of life and consciousness. These sources are divine and natural.
As described here, I do agree that Extropianism is civic. If you are a Millennial, Bill, then you are typical.
"Extropianism is a transhumanist philosophy. The Extropian Principles define a specific version or "brand" of transhumanist thinking. Like humanists, transhumanists favor reason, progress, and values centered on our well being rather than on an external religious authority. Transhumanists take humanism further by challenging human limits by means of science and technology combined with critical and creative thinking. We challenge the inevitability of aging and death, and we seek continuing enhancements to our intellectual abilities, our physical capacities, and our emotional development. We see humanity as a transitory stage in the evolutionary development of intelligence. We advocate using science to accelerate our move from human to a transhuman or posthuman condition. As physicist Freeman Dyson has said: "Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word."
I favor transhumanism more or less as Nietzsche first defined it, and it goes back to the romantics. To become the overman requires a spiritual journey, not so much a scientific technology. It requires developing our human potential. I don't oppose technology, but do not agree that it is the key to becoming more than human. That is an ethical, psychological, spiritual pursuit. To be transhuman in the new age perspective I uphold is to be able to manifest God as ourselves. The human potential movement begun in the 2T Awakening is the path to follow for a genuine transhumanism.
I agree an external religious authority is not an appropriate central value for humanity, or for going beyond human.
I challenge the inevitability of aging and death, not only by using science, but by understanding the afterlife, reincarnation and between lives.
I agree with developing our abilities, including spiritual abilities.
Your tendency to discount the value of Nature and the dangers of climate change go against my philosophy. We must respect Nature, even if we can transcend it in some ways. Nature is a value in itself, and teaches us a great deal, as the romantics and transcendentalists taught us and the greens of today proclaim. Nature teaches us that life and evolution grows from within outward, and is not made like a machine or the result of natural selection alone. And so it will continue to be. To expand as humans, we must honor and expand the sources of life and consciousness. These sources are divine and natural.
As described here, I do agree that Extropianism is civic. If you are a Millennial, Bill, then you are typical.