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the theme of all great science fiction is that we can't engineer humanity away

whats the probability that any type of engineering, be it va...
Vigorous Mustard House
  03/17/18
i live in an augmented reality of xo and porn, and i really ...
Razzle-dazzle parlor yarmulke
  03/17/18
cr. im not so much quibbling with the products of science bu...
Vigorous Mustard House
  03/17/18
i agree with that.
Razzle-dazzle parlor yarmulke
  03/17/18
Yankee science fiction maybe. The Russian variety is pretty ...
Infuriating Hissy Fit Pit
  03/17/18
Zamyatin certainly disagrees
Vigorous Mustard House
  03/17/18


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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:22 AM
Author: Vigorous Mustard House

whats the probability that any type of engineering, be it vast improvements in technological prowess and material wealth or profound alterations to our genes, bodies, brains and, as a consequence, our minds, moves us closer to something we'd reasonably call a meaningful life?

without struggle and strife we move away from our connection to the deep, primordial relationship to our physical environment and the source of our phenomenal, emotive relationship to ourselves that's been given to us through the historical struggle between mind and matter.

No amount of scientific tinkering, even as time and knowledge go off to infinity, will be able to replicate the richness we feel in moments of true existential wonder, curiosity, freedom and fear.

I'm not willing to trade the richness of our human, ancestral past for a sterile, posthuman, transhuman future, however overwhelming the pain that comes with the former, however blissful the pleasures of the latter. Because when its gone, we'll understand that that pain and confusion was the reason for our hunger for survival, the basis of our will, the reason we were alive. Without it, we'll wish we were gone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624143)



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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:25 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle parlor yarmulke

i live in an augmented reality of xo and porn, and i really like it here. see you on the other side!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624170)



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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:33 AM
Author: Vigorous Mustard House

cr. im not so much quibbling with the products of science but the ethos that seems to invariably come along with them. the denial of human values, supplanted by objectivity measures that are taken as ends in themselves but are not reasons in themselves. the incremental improvement of outcomes can never stand as the fundamental means of understanding who we are and what we are, and will never serve to ground the human project divorced from their contextual oppositions, which serve in the final analysis as their preconditions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624230)



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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:38 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle parlor yarmulke

i agree with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624255)



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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:36 AM
Author: Infuriating Hissy Fit Pit

Yankee science fiction maybe. The Russian variety is pretty sure we can and will.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624244)



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Date: March 17th, 2018 12:37 AM
Author: Vigorous Mustard House

Zamyatin certainly disagrees

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3921086&forum_id=2#35624248)