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POPSI am a transhumanist, thanks I say, fear not. If you have clearly transhumanist beliefs, like the notion that human enhancement is coming in the next few decades and will be a big deal, then don’t be afraid to call yourself one. As Dr. Wittgenstein, one of my favorite philosophers ever, used to argue, words are just labels we fill with our own content. To think that a word has any inherent meaning aside from its use in language is absurd.
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POPS Self models There is no such thing as a substantial self (as a distinct ontological entity, which could in principle exist by itself), but only a dynamic, ongoing process creating very specific representational and functional properties. Self-consciousness is a form of physically realized representational content
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POPSDYNAMIC OPTIMISM Unimaginably vast in scope and complexity, reality cannot be fully recognized at any one time. a worthwhile read
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POPSDuelity Just go to http://www.duelity.net/ & click "watch". There are three short movies.
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POPSIntimacy In A Fluid World FM-2030 was a name adopted by the transhumanist philosopher and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (October 15, 1930–July 8, 2000), who professed "a deep nostalgia for the future."
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POPSReport on Resistentialism Resistentialism, a sombre, post-atomic philosophy of pagan, despairing nobility, advocates complete withdrawal from Things..;-)
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POPSWHAT IS LIFE? Life complies with the disciplines of the General System but is differentiated by the Natural Reproductive discipline.
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POPS'Semantic' website promises to organise your e-life Although only available to only about a 100 testers, Twine has caused a stir among web experts because it is one of the first few commercial ventures to try harnessing the semantic web. Other semantic start-ups include the search engines Powerset and True Knowledge, and a free semantic database service called Freebase.
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POPSREGARDING A NEW HUMANISM "This convention is responsible—and has been denounced by Buddha and David Hume alike—for committing the fallacy of believing in the mind's existence when the only thing we can be certain of is the existence of mental acts."
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POPSSciTalks SciTalks collects talks and lectures by scientists on a variety of topics.
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POPSAsk the Atheist This site was created to provide a resource for people who are curious about atheism and to counter some misunderstandings about this way of looking at the world
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POPSThomas Metzinger Lecture at UC Berkeley Arguments against the canonical "first-person perspective" -- the mind as a "transient computational module." Task for the viewer: try to find out if Metzinger's de-construction method depends on the method deconstructed.
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