> forrestb@ix.netcom.com (Forrest Bishop) writes:
>
> > >Do we want a singularity where a small nano-elite transcends and
> > leaves
> > >everybodye else in the dust,
> >
> > Sure, as long as moi is in it. ;)
>
> Yes, I think that is what most of us secretly think. OK, I'm
> an egalitarian and part-time altruist, but I have nothing against
> being part of the ruling elite either...
>
> > > a Borg-de Chardin
> >
> > This sound clever, but I don't know the reference.
>
> I assume you know about the Borg from Star Trek (if not, watch out
> for my essay about borganism in next Homo Excelsior). de Chardin
> refers to the jesuit mystic and paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin
> and his pseudoscientific but influential idea of how the 'noosphere'
> of thinking on Earth will get more and more interconnected, until
> it merges into a superorganism which he called the Omega Point
> and identified with Christ (yes, this was the source of Tiplers
> ideas).
>
> > > singularity where we
> > >all become one,
> >
> > Probably the most boring.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. Might be fun learning to know oneself.
>
> > >a cambrian explosion of new kinds of beings
> >
> > My personal favorite.
>
> Me too. Diversity is FUN!
>
****** I add, nevertheless: without loosing the *individuality* as
a possible ( and freely chosen ) state... (more to say but I've no
time for while...)
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