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A Transhuman Views the Singularity Summit 2011
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Last weekend (10/15-16/2011) it was my pleasure to attend Singularity Summit 2011, an event presented annually by the Singularity Institute since 2006. As much as Arse Elektronika celebrated the freedom of citizen science and engineering in pursuit of more fun and joy for everybody, so Singularity Summit celebrated actual and potential financial success and public…
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What is the Name of God?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español In his 1953 sci-fi story, The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke imagined a Tibetan monastery where monks labored ceaselessly to list every permutation of letters in their alphabet and thus to list every possible name of god, fulfilling their destiny and bringing about the end…
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…and The Model is Not the Action (Sex is not Gender)
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… The field of General Semantics introduces patterns of thought required for success in computer programming and related subjects, and I’ve been struck by how much its basic ideas of cleaning up human thought by insisting on principles like “the map is not the territory” correspond to real life and all…
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The Name is not the Thing and…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… This is the story of the great change in the accepted understanding of human language that occurred in the last century and how it is forcing extensive public reevaluation of large bodies of “received wisdom.” In less than one century a logical/linguistic misconception has become a hallmark of ignorance and…