Hi Natasha After discussions with you and others in 2005, I created a revised version of the essay, which may not address all your complaints, but hopefully addressed some of them.
http://www.goertzel.org/Chapter12_aug16_05.pdf However I would be quite interested in further critiques of the 2005 version, because the book in which is was published is going to be reissued in 2008 and my coauthor and I are planning to rework the chapter anyway. thanks Ben On Jan 20, 2008 1:51 PM, Natasha Vita-More <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 06:06 AM 1/20/2008, Mike Tintner wrote: > > > Sorry if you've all read this: > > http://www.goertzel.org/benzine/extropians.htm > > But I found it a v. well written sympathetic critique of extropianism & > highly recommend it. What do people think of its call for a "humanist > transhumanism"? > I found Ben's essay to contain a certain bias which detracts from its > substance. If Ben would like to debate key assumptions his essay claims, I > available. Otherwise, if anyone is interested in key points which I belive > are narrowly-focused and/or misleading, I'll post them. > > Natasha > > Natasha Vita-More PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in > the Faculty of Technology, School of Computing, Communications and > Electronics, University of Plymouth, UK Transhumanist Arts & Culture > Thinking About the Future > > If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, > then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the > circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system > perspective. - Buckminster Fuller > > > ________________________________ > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth." -- Vernor Vinge ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=87922044-bb741d
