"I'm quite certain that Catastrophic Climate Change will result in the extinction of Baseline Humans [Homo Sapiens Sapiens] aka me and thee over the next century or so, no matter what we do at this point. The Earth's surface is going to become largely uninhabitable for maybe a thousand years, give or take a century ( Read more... )

In the long run, earth will do just fine. Humans on the other hand may not make it ( Read more... )

~It is fairly certain that unless humans become a space-faring species, we shall go extinct and very possibly in the not too distant future. See Stephen J. Hawking. Elon Musk, et al ( Read more... )

~For a few years in my early teens I was a fairly dedicated National Socialist. Like many who find Nazism, my motivations were emotional, not political. Basically, I wanted to torture my Jewish step father, who fully deserves to be tortured, trust me. Also, my parents were rich hippy artists, so 'going Left' would not have been the rebellious act ( Read more... )

...this will be edited into Part Eight - “Summation”..

~I was watching this gorgeous video of our Sun and being who I am and doing what I do, my aesthetic thoughts were secondary to my...well, let's call them my Pragmatic Thoughts. For all its undeniable beauty, as I watched gossamer tendrils of 'star light' dance off the Sun's radiant body, I was ( Read more... )

"Many in the Transhumanist community seem share a certain outlook, the admirable view that Transhumanism will succeed by pure reason and logic alone. But the vast majority of Baseline Humans are *not* reasonable nor logical. As a species we tend to automatically view Change as Loss, are largely superstitious, fear driven and more often than not act ( Read more... )

So, first we need to redefine one term ( Read more... )

Someone in Debate Me 'asked': "Trans-humanism, yay or nay? I personally think its foolhardy and a relatively worthless pursuit ( Read more... )

• My cyborg sister: When life-saving gadgets break down [C|NET]
• An Artificial Retina with the Capacity to Restore Normal Vision [Weill Cornell Medical College]
• Super-ageing 80-year-olds have brains ’30 years younger’ [TELEGRAPH]
• 3D-printed exoskeleton gives a little girl use of her arm [VENTURE BEAT]
• Chinese man spends eight years building himself bionic ( Read more... )

This thing actually ends at 17:45. Otherwise quite interesting...

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