tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6587105362676674503..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Behold the Man...Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-84495431991856549702012-02-03T10:26:33.803-08:002012-02-03T10:26:33.803-08:00Wie man wird was man ist nicht?
So I just stumble...Wie man wird was man ist nicht?<br /><br />So I just stumbled on this (more than a year late, I know)<br />review in H+ Magazine by friend of blog, Giulio Prisco:<br />http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/09/01/cosmist-manifesto-advocacy/<br /><br />"The term Cosmism seems to have been introduced by Konstantin Tsiolokovsky<br />and other Russian Cosmists around 1900 [but surely more >Hists have<br />heard it in the sense used by Hugo de Garis]. Now, Ben Goertzel’s<br />_Cosmist Manifesto_ (published by Humanity+ Press and available on Amazon)<br />gives it new life. . . Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical<br />philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern<br />[but not Northern and Southern?] philosophy as well as modern technology<br />and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that<br />makes sense now [OK, if you say so], and will keep on making sense as<br />advanced technology exerts its transformative impact in the unfolding future.<br />Goertzel weaves a philosophic tapestry using AI, nanotechnology, uploading,<br />immortality, psychedelic drugs, meditation, future social structures,<br />psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity<br />[a veritable Terrence McKenna among the >Hists!]. The Cosmist perspective<br />is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future<br />possibilities."<br /><br />Plain old common sense -- well, I hope it's not **that** boring! ;-><br /><br />13 to 20 bucks, on Amazon.<br />http://www.amazon.com/Cosmist-Manifesto-Practical-Philosophy-Posthuman/dp/0984609709/<br /><br />Though maybe I should save my pennies for this one:<br /><br />Transcendent Man (DVD - May 24, 2011)<br />Starring Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, William Shatner, et al.<br />http://www.amazon.com/Transcendent-Man-Ray-Kurzweil/dp/B004MYOWYU/<br /><br />Wird, man, just wird!<br /><br />;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-48277774206646282392012-01-31T12:55:16.963-08:002012-01-31T12:55:16.963-08:00I've found pitchers are the way forward when i...I've found pitchers are the way forward when it comes to cocktails.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.com