Re: Nietzsche (transhumanist philosopher)

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 18:56:21 MDT


Steve Nichols has written,
> The post-human period starts with median vision theory (MVT) and the
> solution of the "hard problem" in western philosophy, and the resulting
> transparency through understanding of modern self-referential consciousness,
> and is a state of mind rather than any technological improvement (these are
> incremental and have been going on throughout human history).

Okay, thank you for the clarification, Steve. So, in answer to you question, No,
enlightened masters do not hold us back in the human era. They allow us to
transcend our animal instincts to reach our full potential.

--J. R.

"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_



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