Quote “it is up to us to make sure we will have a place in such a future”
Question; Are you thinking about Moravec’s fantasies of collective (sub)consciousness spread through the universe?
Quote “The thing about post-humanity is that it will not have humanity in it. It’s up to us to make sure that post-humanity comes into existence. This necessarily involves the obsolescence of human beings.
The future we must build necessarily cannot have a place for us in it. That’s the point! The acorn does not survive the creation of the oak.”
You’re kidding. Post-history is fiction, and history is well and alive. Post-humanity as you describe it, is okay for science fiction. If you want to read something intelligent about post-humanism, please read Katherine Hayles: The Human in the Posthuman.
Moravec with his fantasies of extracts of a grey collective brain mass welded together in a post-human orgy of whisper and thought(lessness) makes me weep. His is a truly religiously motivated afterlife fantasy. And yours has got some mystical/mythical aspects, too. Oaks?!?!
Quote “it is up to us to make sure we will have a place in such a future”
Question; Are you thinking about Moravec’s fantasies of collective (sub)consciousness spread through the universe?
Quote “The thing about post-humanity is that it will not have humanity in it. It’s up to us to make sure that post-humanity comes into existence. This necessarily involves the obsolescence of human beings. The future we must build necessarily cannot have a place for us in it. That’s the point! The acorn does not survive the creation of the oak.”
You’re kidding. Post-history is fiction, and history is well and alive. Post-humanity as you describe it, is okay for science fiction. If you want to read something intelligent about post-humanism, please read Katherine Hayles: The Human in the Posthuman. Moravec with his fantasies of extracts of a grey collective brain mass welded together in a post-human orgy of whisper and thought(lessness) makes me weep. His is a truly religiously motivated afterlife fantasy. And yours has got some mystical/mythical aspects, too. Oaks?!?!