On 5 Aug 2002 at 23:04, Sean Kenny wrote:
> On Monday 05 August 2002 18:29, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On 5 Aug 2002 at 20:13, Blunderov wrote:
> > > Hermit wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > If we survive the Singularity
> > > <snap>
> > > [Blunderov]
> > > This usage is not one with which I'm familiar - I'm sure you don't
> > > mean that point at which a photon ceases to move - would you mind
> > > elaborating a bit please? I realise it's probably in the archives
> > > but if it's not too much bother....?
> > >
> > > Warm regards
> >
> > It
> > s an extropian concept that means the point when the acceleration of
> > the rate of technological advance and cultural change reaches the
> > point of instantaneity; some pundits have claimed that this will
> > happen around the year 2012. I am not a great subscriber to this
> > modern technomyth.
>
> But would you consider yourself a transhumanist Joe?
>
I don't hold out much hope for genetically engineered bodily incarnate
mortality, nor do I know what we'd do with feeding and housing all the
crowds, and while we theoretically (but not practically) might some day
be able to upload a virtual facsimile of a person's
neuronal/dendritic/axonal neural networj connection scheme to a
computer database, it is difficult to see how we could mimic the fuzzy
hormonal flows that subtly nuance their firing patterns. Plus I also do
not relish the idea of our AI creations eventually coming to view us as
their primitive precursors, for I possess fasint relish for the occupations
of cosmetic experimental subject for the latest chrome and silicon
fashions or cup carrier for a cyberorgan grinder. Plus I'd rather not be
caged, chained in the back yard, neutered or put to sleep.
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