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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Behold the Man...

Teaching Nietzsche's Ecce Homo in seminar this morning in the City, but should be back in plenty of time to make a pitcher of Mai Tais and enjoy the GOP shenanigans...
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2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

I've found pitchers are the way forward when it comes to cocktails.

12:55 PM
jimf said...

Wie man wird was man ist nicht?

So I just stumbled on this (more than a year late, I know)
review in H+ Magazine by friend of blog, Giulio Prisco:
http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/09/01/cosmist-manifesto-advocacy/

"The term Cosmism seems to have been introduced by Konstantin Tsiolokovsky
and other Russian Cosmists around 1900 [but surely more >Hists have
heard it in the sense used by Hugo de Garis]. Now, Ben Goertzel’s
_Cosmist Manifesto_ (published by Humanity+ Press and available on Amazon)
gives it new life. . . Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical
philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern
[but not Northern and Southern?] philosophy as well as modern technology
and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that
makes sense now [OK, if you say so], and will keep on making sense as
advanced technology exerts its transformative impact in the unfolding future.
Goertzel weaves a philosophic tapestry using AI, nanotechnology, uploading,
immortality, psychedelic drugs, meditation, future social structures,
psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity
[a veritable Terrence McKenna among the >Hists!]. The Cosmist perspective
is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future
possibilities."

Plain old common sense -- well, I hope it's not **that** boring! ;->

13 to 20 bucks, on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmist-Manifesto-Practical-Philosophy-Posthuman/dp/0984609709/

Though maybe I should save my pennies for this one:

Transcendent Man (DVD - May 24, 2011)
Starring Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, William Shatner, et al.
http://www.amazon.com/Transcendent-Man-Ray-Kurzweil/dp/B004MYOWYU/

Wird, man, just wird!

;->

10:26 AM

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