At 09:51 AM 6/9/00, Anders wrote:
>Max More <max@maxmore.com> writes:
>
>When I discuss transhumanism in Swedish, I tend to use the word
>"utveckling" (literally translated it becomes "out-unfolding"), which
>has the meaning of development, evolution, progress, growth,
>generation etc. (you can see that Swedish lacks the synonyms of
>English :-). The nice thing is that it conjures up an image of not a
>linear progression, but rather something unfolding and developing into
>many directions at once.
Anders: If you check earlier versions of the Principles, you'll see that
instead of Perpetual Progress I used to have "Boundless Expansion". A
number of people didn't like that, thinking that it gaving the impression
that we wanted to "pave over the universe". "Expansion" or "unfolding"
(thought the latter I don't like as much) *does* more clearly convey
multiple paths, or diverse *ways* of making progress. But then how to avoid
the "paving over" (and perhaps imperialist) connotations of "expansion"?
Suggestions welcome!
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
President, Extropy Institute. www.extropy.org
CEO, MoreLogic Solutions. www.maxmore.com
max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
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