[ callisto, callisti ]
i had a dream the night of july 27th 2004. this is that dream. this is why i am a posthumanist.
"i dreampt a dream last night that seemed to last for years. it was of posthumans and androids living far beyond our time here on earth after nature repaired itself. it was beautiful. i saw forty or fifty droids climbing the mounds that were once ( Read more... )
"i dreampt a dream last night that seemed to last for years. it was of posthumans and androids living far beyond our time here on earth after nature repaired itself. it was beautiful. i saw forty or fifty droids climbing the mounds that were once ( Read more... )
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actually, since you've gone ahead and opened the floor to posthumanist wonderings and wanderings -
I would love to write a whole long saga about everything which got me interested...PBS as a kid, Star Trek in my youth....actually having a good scientific grounding at that point, and wondering why...didn't they just transport everywhere? Presumably they had nanobots...hell, we practically do. Why do people still die? You're telling me in three centuries we've only
doubled lifespan?....
That sort of thing. Always been a nerd, especially a math nerd.
So the idea of exponential/hyperbolic progress seemed a natural fit. Bring in the Internet around my sophomore year of high school, and it's "oh, global brain. Sweet".
...there's loads more to this. In a bit.
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That was also the year (your pardon, I was a bit of a bible banger in my youth) when I had the first, last and only *ahem* non-deliberate mystical experience of my life so far.
Essentially a voice (not like my usual internal narration, and not some weirdo behind me) telling me (while I was seated in church, no less, "I Am what You will become".
Now that was provocative. Went through lots of models on that one. Contact with God? Future (immortal...or pretty damn near) me, sending back self-fulfilling prophecy? A bit too much cayenne on the chicken for dinner last night?
College was reading as much futurist/immortalist/extropian/transhuman material as I could get my hands on...which, to my shame, I still need to pick up Drexler's Engines of CreationI dig your vision. ( ... )
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We can be > your mom.
Keep talking, boys, Libby's interested.
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these are the only traits i truthfully respect about the human image. i want to carry human wonder into forever. it stems from my interest in one textbook...
( ... )
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Doctorow. Hatt. Stuff I've heard of...seems I have radar for it. Which has made my life a series of "why haven't I gotten around to reading that yet?"s.
Always pleasantness in store when one of those shows up ( ... )
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i do not know if you like metal but alas - i don't really like metal either
until i listened to DRAGONFORCE
go download Through the Fire and Flames!
freaking epic metal music to have battles to! mwahahah!
ps: posthumanism, I have mixed feelings on it. I like it, a lot, I would love to experience it, but I'm also scared of humanity becoming extinct. machines=good, humanmachines=better, no humans?=makes me sad
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hey, you like challenges don't you? there's a character that i'm having trouble desighning, and the look i'm going for is something you might have fun with.
btw, the way you wrote your dream reminded me of something, and i finally figured out what it was, tyler durden's vision of the future after the car wreck if it were written by isac asimov.
grovy.
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wowo yeah it does sort of sound like that doesn't it.
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