Ben Goertzel will give a talk in Teleplace on his recent book “A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age” on September 12, 2010, at 10am PST (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm CET).
A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age, by Ben Goertzel, has been published by Humanity+ Press. See also “Book Review – A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age, by Ben Goertzel“ @ IEET and the revised and expanded version “A Cosmist Manifesto, an Advocacy“ on H+ Magazine. See also the online version of the Cosmist Manifesto.
The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel’s “Cosmist Manifesto” gives it new life and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes sense now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its transformative impact as the future unfolds. Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading, immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.
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THE COSMIC MANIFEST
Alla Mecca il profeta preferito dai musulmani era Mosè; a Medina il suo posto fu preso da Abramo, e Maometto trovò ottime risposte da opporre alle critiche degli ebrei:lui e i suoi musulmani erano tornati allo spirito più puro della fede (hanifiyya) proprio di quegli uomini che erano stati i primi muslim a sottomettersi a Dio. Non sappiamo fino a che punto Maometto abbia condiviso il desiderio di alcuni arabi degli insediamenti di tornare alla religione di Abramo. Nel Corano non viene fatta menzione della piccola setta meccana hanyfiyya;e la figura di Abramo prima delle sure medinesi fu oggetto di scarso interesse. Tuttavia, sembra che in questo periodo i musulmani chiamarono la loro fede hanifiyya, la vera religione di Abramo. Maometto aveva quindi trovato una via per confutare gli ebrei, senza abbandonare l'idea centrale della sottomissione a Dio anziché a una mera espressione terrena della fede, e la rivalutazione dell'importanza di Abramo gli permise di approfondire tale c...