transhumanism- a belief that makes sense

[Khem]

heres a good link check it out. its pretty much my belief system. hey if its not for you then at least its thought provoking.

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/index-2.html

[Yangland]

heres a good link check it out. its pretty much my belief system. hey if its not for you then at least its thought provoking.

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/index-2.html

Yay!Now let's watch ideots hit other ideots with a fish and whip!

[Feniexia]

That´s cool.

[Myroria]

heres a good link check it out. its pretty much my belief system. hey if its not for you then at least its thought provoking.

http://www.aleph.se/Trans/index-2.html

Yay!Now let's watch ideots hit other ideots with a fish and whip!

How is that relavent to anything?

And Transhumanism sounds cool, except it delves too much into believing we have the kind of technology to do migrate to other universes and things. Humans will die, and there's no question about it.

[Bustos]

Interesting.

[Feniexia]

Humans will die, and there's no question about it.

Yes. That´s because governments spend more money on weaponry as in development. Humanity will destroy itself, if there won´t a radical change take place.

[Ephorate]

Transhumanism is fairly science-fictiony-y at the moment, but I do not doubt that mankind will start enhancing itself somewhere in the future.

[Tarrotown]

With half of the worlds species probaly toast by 2100, i'm not sure humanity i'll survive that long.

[Salty]

90% of species are extinct already, did you mean 50% of the world's present species gone by 2100?


I'm very liberal, in every area... but I don't think that the data in Inconvenient Truth is wholly accurate, there maybe a smidgen of liberal bias in there somewhere.

[LLANYDERN]

I'm a biologist and a socialist so I like some of this, it seems to match a lot of what I believe already.

[Isla Imperiale]

To be honest, I really don't care about the environment. As far as I'm concerned, we didn't get to the status of dominant species for nothing. Global Warming is 3 degrees in 100 years, wow. I feel the glaciers melting already. Whatever, let's just use the Earth for our own purposes. That's why we're here.

[Bara]

uhhh.....idnt know what it meant, skimmed it, but........ok........

[LLANYDERN]

yes but If I remember rightly (if I'm wrong please tell me) the Permian extinction was caused by a change of something like 6-9 degree change and that took out over 90% of all known species.

Also most of the predictions about climate change are too optimistic as they often forgot to factor in release of carbon from the ocean and also they are often based on us reducing emissions much more then we are.

Also its not just that it will get warmer (which it will only do on average on the world scale) but that the climate will change (global warming is a misnomer and many people involved with it wish the title had never been coined (a bit like survival of the fittest when they meant survival of the most fit)) and quite dramatically, rain pattens will shift, climatic regions will move and currents will alter.  Some things predicted that have nothing to do with sea levels rising are:
desertification of the grain producing areas in the Americas and possibly in eastern Europe.
Disappearance of much of the rain forest to be replaced by grassland.
Disappearance of the taiga (note the destruction of two of our most important carbon storing ecosystems)
thawing of tundra areas (releasing huge amounts are carbon)
End of the gulf stream (the current which causes most of western Europe to be temperate (and Britain not to be an Ice locked hell hole))

these are just a hand full of things that mean you should be interested in the environment and in global warming

[Solnath]

Sorry, I didn't read through the article, but just its introduction brought an issue to my mind. Concerning the development of humans, will we strive to eliminate our flaws or to amplify our better qualities? Because in my opinion, having no flaws means that there is no natural direction for the person to go. If you can do anything, why bother?

So if Transhumanism is going for a flawless humanity, thanks, I'll pass, I like being a personality. Being without error is effective, but not very interesting or humane. I think I'll hold on to my "flawed, but perfect" point-of-view for the time being.

Interesting line of thought, though. It's about time someone published that.

[Khem]

i prefer eliminating certain flaws and amplifying our better qualities.