Do You Want a 1,000-Year Life Span? The Promise and Perils of Transhumanism | Sensible Thought There is a movement afoot, based substantially in Silicon Valley but now taking root around the world, called Transhumanism. Transhumanism purports that illness, social maladies such as a propensity for criminal behavior, aging, and even death are avoidable and in fact will be overcome scientifically in the not-too-distant future. In a recent lecture entitled “Prospects for Extending Healthy Life – A Lot”, Aubrey Grey addressed a crowd at the product innovation division of Yahoo known as Brickhouse with the following words: “I think that many of the people in this room have a good chance of living to one thousand.” Grey is a biologist from the UK who runs something called the Methuselah Foundation, and holds a degree from Cambridge University. In late 2007, Yahoo executive Salim Ismail said something very similar when he addressed an audience of Silicon Valley types at the company’s headquarters. There is of course danger that arises with all of this promise; Great danger.
Interview: Bruce Sterling on the Convergence of Humans and Machines Bruce Sterling is a prominent science fiction writer and a pioneer of the cyberpunk genre. His cyberpunk novels Heavy Weather (1994), Islands in the Net (1988), Schismatrix (1985), The Artificial Kid (1980) earned him the nickname “Chairman Bruce”. Apart from his writings, Bruce Sterling is also a professor of internet studies and science fiction at the European Graduate School. He has contributed to several projects within the scheme of futurist theory, founded an environmental aesthetic movement, edited anthologies and he still continues to write for several magazines including Wired, Discover, Architectural Record and The Atlantic. In the interview below, we had the honor of hosting Bruce Sterling in our Next Nature Network headquarters to talk to him about the concept of the convergence of humans and machines. Lots of people are actually talking about and also investing a lot of money in this idea of convergence of the machine and humans. There will not be a Singularity.
RationalWiki Crown on the Ground: Against Transhuman Militance Woody Evans December 30, 2010 Transhuman militancy appeals to the wired reptilian brain, and, like anger or fear, it may feel good in the short term to indulge the temptation to go prickly. Any people who can afford to have a conversation about posthuman realities is generally in an extremely enviable position economically, politically, and in terms of human rights. Of course transhumanists are generally a cheeky bunch, and this could be a joke. I'll leave the Haywire argument alone for now, except to say that the assumptions therein are pretty specious. But this all brings up a bigger issue in transhumanism, and it's one that I don't see talked about nearly enough. On this last, imagine the First Amendment right to free speech in posthuman terms: telepathic spam squelched out to a million minds at once. No, as transhumanism moves into the realm of the possible, we must take a moment to firm-wire some humility into the movement. People don't like arrogant, perfect beings. Sovereignty?
La società Ipadizzata di Michael Tchong Questo è il quinto e ultimo degli interventi al Summit Upa che vi racconto. Il primo ( Sassoli de Bianchi ) parla di pubblicità, sviluppo, etica, media… il secondo ( Giavazzi ) di Pil, crisi, tasse e tagli di spesa, e del perché bisogna usare i secondi per diminuire le prime. Il terzo ( Salmann ) parla di tutti noi, nella relazione con economia – rating agencies comprese -, democrazia, pubblicità, consumi. Il quarto ( Campo Dall’Orto ) parla della generazione dei Millennials i ragazzi nati a cavallo tra il secolo passato e questo. Michael Tchong è un futurologo e trendwatcher. Michael Tchong : nuovi linguaggi e nuovi segni Parlerò di molti fenomeni che stanno modificando il nostro stile di vita. 1) Accelerazione della vita, attuata attraverso la compressione dei tempi. 2) Stili di vita digitali Ossigeno online. 4) I media Ipadizzati: ormai i programmi televisivi vengono progettati per essere guardati su iPad.
Teleologic Evolution, Intelligent Self-Design, Anticipatory Computing, Local-Global Feedback Concurrent ontology and the extensional conception of attribute "By analogy with the extension of a type as the set of individuals of that type, we define the extension of an attribute as the set of states of an idealized observer of that attribute, observing concurrently with observers of other attributes. The attribute theoretic counterpart of an operation mapping individuals of one type to individuals of another is a dependency mapping states of one attribute to states of another. We integrate attributes with types via a symmetric but not self-dual framework of dipolar algebras or disheaves amounting to a type-theoretic notion of Chu space over a family of sets of qualia doubly indexed by type and attribute, for example the set of possible colors of a ball or heights of buildings. We extend the sheaf-theoretic basis for type theory to a notion of disheaf on a profunctor. Keywords: Attribute, Chu space, ontology, presheaf, type." "3.3 Ontology of properties and qualia (Notes:
transhumanism | devilDroid Thoughts on creating AI/developer empathy through BCI & augmented reality games This is a work in progress. I realize that I need to flesh out my ideas for them to become comprehensive. The primer, from Eliezer Yudkowsky‘s Creating Friendly AI: In a sense, the only way to create a Friendly AI – the only way to acquire the skills and mindset that a Friendship programmer needs – is to try and become a Friendly AI yourself… I realize that this sounds a little mystical, since a human being couldn’t become an AI without a complete change of cognitive architecture… I know of no other way to gain a real grasp on where a Friendly will comes from. The idea is to create a game designed to develop a sense of mutual ai/developer empathy. We need better people. For an AI to truly develop a sense of empathy with humankind, he must develop anthropmorphic thinking. The flesh is not evil. But how does the AI achieve a body image? This is intimate. How do machines learn at all? Edit History
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Nephilim, Atlantis & Transhumanism w/ Michael Tsarion & William Whitecrow – 08/27/11 : Truth Frequency Truth Frequency | Aug 27, 2011 Hour 1: We welcome William Whitecrow who hosts a guided mediation to channel our collective consciousness and try to move Hurricane Irene back into the ocean. (Coincidentally?), Hurricane Irene dissipated Sunday morning. We also discuss preparedness and spiritual elevation for the coming disasters. Hour 2, 3: We speak with Michael Tsarion and connect the dots between Atlantis, The Nephilim, Transhumanism and the end of Evil. Hour 4: We kick back and let loose for an hour of Truth Frequency UNLEASHED! (Length: 3 hours, 15 minutes – commercial free) **Due to limited resources, we can only maintain free downloads for 7 days** All archives older than 7 days can be downloaded in high quality, in the members section. Comments comments Filed Under: Truth Frequency
The New Copernican Revolution: Fritjof Capra on the Shift to 'The Systems View of Life' Image courtesy Fritjof Capra Fritjof Capra is one of the world’s leading thinkers in systems theory, and the author of many influential books, such as The Tao of Physics; The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter; The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture; The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living; and Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius. Fritjof has described his latest book, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision as “the realisation of a dream” and it has been written with his long-time friend and colleague Pier Luigi Luisi, one of the world’s leading authorities on the origin of life and self-organisation of synthetic and natural systems. The result is a book that presents, for the first time, a coherent systemic framework that integrates four dimensions of life — biological, cognitive, social and ecological — and discusses the profound philosophical, social and political implications of this new paradigm.
Let's Philosophize | Word Vomit Alright. Here's the deal. I'm gonna rant out a string of thoughts, and you're gonna read that shit, and think. Now, I'm not telling you to just consider the shit I'm writing and then brush it off like crumbles off your shoulders, I mean really think. Use your inefficient nugget and ponder on the words I'm about to lay upon you like a priest for his congregation. We're all so proud of being part of this great masterplan, this greatness we call humankind. For all of you who're thinking I'm about to lay upon you scriptures or other holy shit, don't get ahead of yourself. I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start, but I'll go ahead with the spark that incited this post in the first place. If I was given the responsibility to correct humanity, on a grand scale, I'd make ignorance a crime. Now, I'm not trying to eliminate the human factor within all of this. Where am I going with this? Alright, so that was just one of my many opinions. I don't wanna live on this planet anymore.