I don't even read science fiction at all. I was just told that this problem crops up, whether in old or new science fiction is immaterial. As soon as humanity...
JSM in message 7584: "Perhaps Stacey would be happy at the prospect of existing in a static condition of maximised pleasure for thousands of years as a brain...
I have completely failed to get my point across. I am quite aware that that is what Kurzweil and people like him are saying. But even conceding it to be ...
Stacey> I'm wondering whether you're disturbed by the thought that the superman ideal may eventually be realized not in the form of a handful of Caesars and...
>>"I'm wondering whether you're disturbed by the thought that the superman ideal may eventually be realized not in the form of a handful of Caesars and...
JGC: That's twice I've called you JGS. I have no idea why. Once the nanobots are installed in my cerebral cortex, all will be well again.<br><br>STACEY...
"my assumption (and Kurzweil's) that curiosity will survive the human-to-machine transition is ultimately an expression of personal beliefs about what features...
"In effect, all humans will have become supermen. Since you (and other OPNers) seem to be so fond of the elitist aspect of Nietzsche's vision of the superman,...
Perhaps it is better to keep it in the realm of psychology- which is usually the best way to understand the complex role of myth anyhow.<br><br>The Ubermensch...
"Psychology- which is usually the best way to understand the complex role of myth anyhow."<br><br>I'm not so sure of that. Psychologising myth can reduce it....
JSM (message 7608): "I'd like you to explain how you think curiosity might survive such access [to instant pleasure]."<br><br>I've already given you my ...
***Perhaps it is better to keep it in the realm of psychology- which is usually the best way to understand the complex role of myth anyhow***<br><br>Thank you,...
Come clean, Stacey ma' babe.<br><br>You have nothing to lose.<br><br>I read your posts, and the thought that comes to mind...: "This could only have been ...
Reflex in the sky <br>warn you you're gonna die<br>Storm comin' you better hide from the atomic tide<br><br>Flashes in the sky turns houses into sty<br>Turns...
As if educately and the hippies weren't enough, here come the aging metal-heads. Let me guess, you sport the ever-popular Scorps circa 1985 bald in front ...
>>In the Kurzweilian future technology isn't an Other, because humanity has become technological and technology has become human. <br><br>I guess this is...
"I've already given you my reasons, tempered with appropriate expressions of humility in the face of your objections. I can do no more."<br><br>I think you'd...
I honestly don't find any greater intellectual heft in your arguments than in mine. But I grow weary of this particular agon ("agon"--I'm waxing JGC-esque...
I'll wager 200 triskelions that I've read more Plato than Shatner has. Neither of us has read Kierkegaard.<br><br>I'm going back to bed.<br><br>STACEY...
"If you wish to declare victory, be my guest."<br><br>If that means you retract your remark in 7479 on Kurzweil, <br><br>"If anyone deserves the title of...
This is hardly reducing our selections of lenses to a mere psychological perspective, which is a rather complex assortment of perspectives itself; <br><br>it...
"My educated guess is that this chasm has value for us, not in a Luddite way of rejecting technology, but in a will to power way of asserting mastery over ...
"it is using the psychological lens to make sense of what motivates and activates our will power,"<br><br>Are you suggesting that psychology is more ...
Ozzy Ozbourne was THE 20th Century's alpha male Dyonysus Antichrist for millions of adolescent males, and not a few femme fatales as well, across the Americas,...
I am saying that if one wants to understand the soul of the idea of will to power, get to its root and sources, see what it is, describes how it works, put it...
Perhaps he was wrong with this statement? Perhaps he misunderstood the relationship between myth and psychology- or, more precisely, using psychological...
