From: Benoît Mussche (benoit.mussche@pandora.be)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 16:08:55 MDT
On Thursday 10 July 2003 01:02, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> At 10:10 PM 7/9/03 +0200, Anders wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:40:33PM -0400, Hughes, James wrote:
> > > We need some folks from the WTA to show up at this Christian
> > > bioconservative conference and politely distribute some WTA literature.
> > > Contact me if you think you can attend. - secretary@transhumanism.org
> >
> >Maybe an even better approach is to engage them in discussion, based on
> >some memes that are not too out there. Asking "but isn't prolonging and
> >enhanching life exactly what all the miracles of Christ was about? And
> >didn't he say that it was up to the faithful to do his work?" can have
> >very interesting effects in this kind of venue.
>
> Anders, I agree with you. Good twist on the topic. Another point is that
> what we need to get are a lot of transhumanist-friendly people there and
> not push any one organization to be there. Geez.
Indeed, transhumanism should remain a modern philosophy, using the internet,
the obvious means of communication designed to spread it. Why: nowadays,
smart people that could deem useful to develop mankind forward tend to be
cultophobic, ie. they see any unipolar philosophy groups popping up as lead
by gurus seeking to pocket as much money as possible (having an intelligence
doesn't mean being open). We'd rather remain a distributed intelligence,
mostly leaderless, and a natural leadership of the collectiveness of our
beings will pop up in the long term as technology integrates. Don't let those
who try to feed on us make us what we don't want to be.
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