From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 19:48:20 MST
On Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:35 PM Brett Paatsch
paatschb@ocean.com.au wrote:
>> See "The Functions of the Family in the Great
>> Society" by Steven Horwitz at:
>> http://it.stlawu.edu/shor/Papers/Functions.htm
>>
>> What do you some of you think of
>> the family in the context of
>> transhumanism and Extropianism?
>
> I think family is a potent meme. And with
> scientific validity we can adopt it, extend
> it, and validly use it, as part of a pleasant
> theme of inclusivity.
How about new family forms in the context of future changes?
What exactly do you mean by "scientific validity" here? In Horwitz's
paper, I think he's approaching family as a social phenomena. In other
words, to some extent, he's assuming it exists and then analyzing it
along various axes.
> Especially now that it looks like homo sapiens
> arose in one location in Africa rather than in
> a number of places separately. Could work
> very well against the darker memes that
> pop up or are invoked from time to time.
Such as? How?
What of the meme of "meme"? That powerful meme might have a few would
be memeticists entranced.:)
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
See "Macroeconomics for the Real World" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/Macro.html
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