To be more than human is to be human

[Dixie]

Come on extinction!

[kahljorn]

that's my kind of transhumanism :O

[Pub Lover]

I'm sorry if she already admitted that is was only playing the fool, but I stopped reading Jeanette's posts halfway down the last page because her pedantic and pointless idiocy wasn't being rescued by kahljorn's seemingly considered and well thought out counterpoints that Jeanette then consistantly ignored.

Haha, she probably got me good with her humourless vet attack of being dull, rite guys?

[Pub Lover]

OK, I just read the posts I skipped. Jeanette is a humourless sack of shit that should shut up until she passes a course of joke getting, if not a minor seminar in having a point before trying to argue it.

[Jeanette X]

I know, I know. I haven't gotten into a serious debate with anyone for a while, and so I'm out of form. Like a boxer who's gotten soft and fat from not practicing.

[kahljorn]

its cool transhumanism is like the gayest subject and besides that i had home-team advantage. people arguing for transhumanism have all kinds of tricks but usually the whole caution argument does fuck with them because they are silly idiots who, like you said, never consider that there may be problem.
and yea usually they do say that it will happen WITHIN FIFTY YEARS. I think that transhumanists like that are just millenarianists in disguise!Q

although I'm sure most transhumanists would argue that it's just around the corner with the kaleidoscopinng parascoping nature of advancing technologies! someday your paradigm will shift and you will understand that the future comes faster than the future; here time turns into space!

That's basically an accurate rendition of a transhumanist's thoughts, except with better punctuation and a quote of parsifal!

[Dimnos]

Have you guys not downloaded your consciousness into the Internet yet to battle this out on a massive IP server somewhere?

[Pub Lover]

They tried but the DNZ wouldn't resolve because Jeanette's mind is configured for mac.

[Dimnos]

Originally Posted by Pub Lover

They tried but the DNZ wouldn't resolve because Jeanette's mind is configured for mac.

Doh!

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Pub Lover

They tried but the DNZ wouldn't resolve because Jeanette's mind is configured for mac.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

[VaporTrailx1]

All I know is we'll find out when we create the self replicating nano-bugs that might consume everything.

BTW I personally wouldn't mind having my consciousness uploaded into a computer system, as long as it was like Tron and not like The Matrix. I don't want anything close to reality. I want virtual consciousness to be retro, like Lawnmower Manish, hell maybe even like a quake 2 typa thing. something with some synth and some pixels.

[kahljorn]

nanotechnologu

[Rez]

why are we having this conversation when warren ellis isnt even around...

[Big Papa Goat]

Did anyone bring up grey goo yet? That's a good one. I'm actaully pretty surprised that no transhumanists have joined the forums for the purpose of arguing in this thread, I remember I made a post on my now defunct blog that was read by maybe 10 people about transhumanism and the executive director/founder of the World Transhumanist Association, a sociologist by the name of James Hughes, made a lengthy and detailed rebuttal of my dumbass remarks.

Maybe now that I've mentioned his name he'll swing by these parts.
Transhumanism makes me sad though, I failed at writing a thesis on it

[executioneer]

Originally Posted by Big Papa Goat

Did anyone bring up grey goo yet?

Originally Posted by VaporTrailx1

we'll find out when we create the self replicating nano-bugs that might consume everything

yes!