humanity+ update

Comments Closed | Posted by admin, October 7th, 2009

Join us for a gathering of leading lights in the transhumanist movement, to talk about how we can all get to an awesome future.

4 Comments | Posted by admin, November 16th, 2009

Human biology and psychology are unfit for the kind of society we live in and we must either alter our political institutions, severely restrain our technology or change our nature. Or face annihilation by our own design.

1 Comment | Posted by admin, November 16th, 2009

Successes and challenges en route to unlimited human lifespans. Q&A on the Immortality Institute, led by Shannon Vyff

1 Comment | Posted by goertzel, October 28th, 2009

Can advanced AI technology accelerate the path to understanding, diagnosing and curing complex diseases?

I think so, and will argue my case at the BIL-PIL unconference in San Diego on October 30.

For a thorough, nontechnical presentation of related ideas in the context of life extension research, see the essay “AI Against Aging“, on the Biomind.com website.

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Frances Willard

From a speech in 1891: It may be that in some better day the world will see a human being gifted with the best powers of what we are wont to call the "lower orders of creation;" keen sighted and swift of motion as a bird, sharp scented as a greyhound, faithful as a dog and full of wisdom as an elephant. It may be, too, that we shall see a human being who has not only these powers, but is made up of the best physical graces, mental gifts and graciousness of all generations; one who shall gain knowledge, not by the present slow process of acquisition, but instantaneously, through magnetic currents, from the books and brains about him... Naturally the unintelligent and the unimaginative will declare this impossible, but everything helps forward the advent of just such a being as that. All arts, inventions, philanthropies, religions, are but tentacul put forth, searching for the means to make the man of the future, who shall be what all who have the vision and faculty divine have always prophesied he would yet be — a microcosm, the mirror of the universe. We in our little corner, doing our work well-nigh unnoted by the world at large, are helping by our small increments of power to create this complete human being — the goal of all desire and hope. The coral zoophyte builds not more surely on the unseen reef that yet shall rise in gleaming beauty above the deep sea's level blue than we are building for universal and perfected human nature. Nothing less is in our thought, and nothing else; for by ideals we live, and this ideal has been upon our consciousness from the beginning. The brain is but a stained glass window now, we wish to change it to a crystal pure and brilliant.

Frances Willard | American feminist

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