June 10, 2009
A Cosmist Manifesto
Fellow transhumanist Ben Goertzel is working on A Cosmist Manifesto devoted to developing a cogent and refreshingly "holistic" approach to transhumanism incorporating all that it means to be human and the whats and hows of improving upon it. This has been one of several chief complaints I've had with technological transhumanism (of which Singularitarianism represents one corner of), which is that in order to understand and appreciate what it means to become better than human, it helps to understand what is best about being human. Technological transhumanists seem to think the only thing worth saving or improving upon is reasoning skills, with little more than lip service to the other aspects of human consciousness. Most transhumanists I know are so obsessed with the underlying technology they entirely neglect the human (i.e consciousness) side of the equation. I've waxed poetic and sometime not so eloquently about the underlying psychology of these types, coming to the conclusion that those most poised to improve technology are those most likely to have Asperger's, lacking in both social and artistic skills, and thus unable to appreciate and be sensitive to the more subtle and beautiful aspects of being alive. Ben on the other hand appreciates these good qualities of humanness and does his best to articulate a vision of transcendence incorporating them.
Well said. However, I think Ken Wilber is also doing a pretty good job with the integral movement. Although he isn't real heavy on technology, he is doing a good of fleshing out all of the factors in human development and the ways the population can work on moving into transpersonal states - from social structures, psychotherapy and contemplative practices, to health and exercise. I don't necessarily agree with everything, but I find integral theory the best "transhumanist" map there is, if you can classify it as such.
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