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Post by whiterose on Nov 4, 2007 7:51:01 GMT -5
Students face future transhumanism: Welcome to the world of Transhumanism, a future where scientists successfully merge the complementary aspects of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, cloning, simulated reality and genetic engineering — creating a pace of change so rapid human beings can barely comprehend or cope. Futurists like Levy and Ray Kurzweil predict we will eventually upload our “consciousness” into computers, achieving near immortality. Don’t laugh. In 2002, a report from the National Science Foundation proclaimed: “Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind — an enormous, single, intelligent entity.” That seemingly unthinkable hypothetical is creeping ever closer... The future masters of the Transhuman universe should consider the advice of Arthur Cebrowski, the recently retired director of Force Transformation at the Department of Defense: “Either you create your future, or you become the victim of the future someone creates for you.” From Raiders News Network----- the.ricethresher.org/opinion/2007/11/02/sex_with_robotsStudents face future of Transhumanism Dan Abrahamson In five years, you might have sex with a robot. So says artificial intelligence researcher David Levy, who also predicts that by 2050, marriages with robots will be legally recognized by states. Welcome to the world of Transhumanism, a future where scientists successfully merge the complementary aspects of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, cloning, simulated reality and genetic engineering — creating a pace of change so rapid human beings can barely comprehend or cope. Futurists like Levy and Ray Kurzweil predict we will eventually upload our “consciousness” into computers, achieving near immortality. More at the above link:
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Post by whiterose on Nov 8, 2007 14:40:41 GMT -5
www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/full.php?news=9966The Train to Huxley's Dehumanized Brave New World has Already Left the Station Added: Nov 8th, 2007 7:34 AM “Train to Huxley's Dehumanized Brave New World has Already Left the Station” Dr. Leon Kass at Manhattan Institute Lecture By Hilary White NEW YORK, November 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The meaning of human nature itself is under threat from a new philosophy of “soul-less scientism” that will undermine “our own self-understanding as human beings” and reduces the aspirations of mankind to the purely material realm. This new philosophy outstrips the danger posed by the actual techniques and technologies of modern biomedical science, said Dr. Leon Kass, speaking to a New York audience in October. “Scientific ideas and discoveries” he said, “are being enlisted to do battle against our traditional religious and moral teachings, and even our self-understanding as creatures with freedom and dignity.” In a speech to the Manhattan Institute last month, Dr. Kass, one of the most prominent public intellectuals dealing with bioethical issues, also pointed out that in many cases, these technical achievements are being used “for purposes beyond therapy, and may soon be used to transform human nature itself.” “The Pill. In vitro fertilization. Surrogate wombs. Cloning. Genetic engineering. Organ swapping. Mechanical spare parts. Performance--enhancing drugs. Computer implants into brains. Ritalin for the young, Viagra for the old, Prozac for everyone. Virtually unnoticed, the train to Huxley's dehumanized Brave New World has already left the station,” Kass said. But even these dehumanizing technological instruments are not as great a threat as the philosophy driving most of the biomedical research community. Dire as some of these issues are, he said, they point to a deeper, underlying “philosophical challenge: one that threatens how we think about who and what we are.” Dr. Kass researches bioethics, ethics, philosophy, marriage, family, and social mores. He is a former chairman and member of the President's Council on Bioethics, and was instrumental in helping President Bush develop his policies restricting embryonic research and cloning. On October 18, he gave the annual Wriston Lecture, sponsored by the Manhattan Institute, a public policy think tank that hosts forums in New York City and Washington, DC for policy makers, business people, researchers and journalists on prominent contemporary issues. He identifies a “quasi-religious faith” that he calls “soul-less scientism” a materialist philosophy that that “believes that our new biology, eliminating all mystery, can give a complete account of human life.” Kass clearly identifies this philosophy as a “threat to our humanity”, saying it proposes to provide a “purely scientific” explanation of “human thought, love, creativity, moral judgment, and even why we believe in God.” The stakes, Kass warned, are high. “All friends of human freedom and dignity—including even the atheists among us — must understand that their own humanity is on the line.” To counter this threat, Kass recommends the view of humanity found in the Bible, particularly its account of creation that he says, “offers a profound teaching on human nature” and “nourish[es] the soul's deep longings for answers” to humanity’s great questions. He notes that the biblical account of creation that “locates that teaching in relation to the deepest human longings and concerns” is unsurprisingly the “chief target” of the proponents of the anti-human soul-less scientism. Kass has defended the Bible’s version of creation, in a way similar to the teaching of the Catholic Church, saying that it in no way conflicts with the findings of modern science. He says it presents not a “freestanding, historical or scientific account” of how life began, areas that are properly the purview of the natural sciences, but an “awe-inspiring prelude to a lengthy and comprehensive teaching about how we are to live”. The creation account provides us with a starting point to help human beings “make sense of their world and their task within it.” While not entirely pro-life, Kass’ work discussing and developing a humanistic answer to modernity’s nihilistic philosophies has been praised by pro-life advocates as a genuine and much needed contribution to the issues. And he has not hesitated to criticise the intellectual vacuity of most modern secular bioethics. Rest of the article at the above link:
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Post by whiterose on Nov 27, 2007 10:26:48 GMT -5
Bring on the nanobots, and we will live long and prosper 2007 11 27 By Ray Kurzweil | guardian.co.uk We are nearing a tipping point in life extension, thanks to technologies that enhance our health and maximise resources Extending human life expectancy is not a new story. When our genes evolved thousands of years ago, it was not in the interests of the species for people to live past child-rearing as resources such as food were in very short supply. So human life expectancy was in the 20s a thousand years ago. It was only 37 in 1800. It is now pushing 80, and we have been adding about three months each year for the past several decades. This progression is about to go into high gear. Until recently, health and medicine was a hit or miss affair. We would discover interventions such as drugs that had benefits but also many side effects. We did not have the means to design interventions, but that is changing. The breakthrough in stem-cell biology reported this week offers just one example of the progress. With the completion of the human genome project in 2003 and the advent of techniques such as RNA interference, which can turn off the genes that promote disease and ageing, medicine has transformed itself into an information technology. It is now subject to what I call the "law of accelerating returns" - a doubling of capability (for the same cost) each year. For example, the amount of genetic data collected has doubled every year since 1990, and the cost has come down from $10 per base pair to a fraction of a penny. As a result, technologies to literally reprogramme the "software" (ie the genes) that underlie human biology will be a thousand times more powerful than they are today in a decade, and a million times more powerful in two decades. According to my models, we will be adding more than a year every year to our remaining life expectancy only 15 years from now. That will be a tipping point in life extension. Rather than the sands of time running out with passing time, they will be running in. The further out in time we go, the more advances we will be able to take advantage of. Within a couple of decades, we will have "nanobots" in our blood stream, basically small robots the size of blood cells, that will keep us healthy at the cellular and molecular level. There are already dozens of successful experiments with a first generation of such devices in animals. One scientist cured type-I diabetes in rats with a blood cell-sized device, and scientists at MIT have microscopic devices that can scout out cancer cells in the bloodstream and destroy them. These devices will be a billion times more powerful than they are today in 25 years, and will continue the accelerating path to radical life extension. The prospect of dramatically reducing the death rate troubles some observers, as they worry about issues such as overpopulation and More at this link: www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=2342
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Post by skytroll on Dec 2, 2007 22:59:52 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhhhh......but, what about Ancient DNA? mmmmmmseems there are some problems with the first evolution. Same evolutionary intermediaries are the same genetic changes that have occurred over time.mmmmmmmmmmmmm "Ancient DNA may be misleading scientists Tuesday, 18 February 2003 test tubes Dating skeletal material with DNA may not be as acurate as thought Ancient DNA in skeletons has a tendency to show damage in a particular region, resulting in misleading genetic data and mistaken conclusions about the origin of the skeleton, British scientists said. A group of researchers at the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre of the University of Oxford, in Britain, made the finding while studying Viking specimens. They found that about half of the specimens had DNA that suggested they were of Middle Eastern origin. But more detailed analysis revealed that many of the genetic sequences in the double helix molecule, which carries the genetic information of every individual, were damaged at a key base that separates European sequences from Middle Eastern genetic types - damage which made the skeletons appear to have originated in the Levant. The results are published in the February 2003 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. Damage events appear to be concentrated in specific 'hotspots', indicating that a high proportion of DNA molecules can be modified at the same point. These hotspots appear to be in positions that also differ between different human groups. In other words, the DNA damage discovered affects the same genetic positions as evolutionary change. "Now that this phenomenon has been recognised, it is possible to survey the ancient sequences for damage more accurately, and determine the correct original genetic type - open the way for more reliable future studies," said Professor Alan Cooper, director of the centre. Cooper has hopes the finding may have implications for future research. "It also appears that we can use damage cause after death to examine how DNA damage occurs during life - a completely unanticipated, and somewhat ironic result," he said. "Potentially this allows us to get uniquely separate views of the two major evolutionary processes, mutation and selection." Danny Kingsley - ABC Science Online Related Stories Planet of the apes, News in Science 12 Jul 2001 "Out of Africa" in Asia, News in Science 11 May 2001 Neanderthals & modern humans may have interbred, News in Science 5 Apr 2001 www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s786146.htmWhat is Ancient DNA? Skytroll
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Post by skytroll on Dec 2, 2007 23:29:04 GMT -5
The Levant?....mmmmmm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevantLevante, Spain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levante%2C_Spainwell.....look at this: Genetics The original Nuraghe inhabitants of Sardinia, who are now concentrated in the interior of the island due to pressure from colonists, are a genetic « anomaly »[citation needed] in the region. They belong to Y-chromosome haplogroup I, which otherwise has high frequency only in Scandinavia and the Croatia-Bosnia area. Furthermore, the I haplogroup of the indigenous Sardinians is of the I1b1b subtype, which is unique to the island. The I1b1b haplogroup also has a low distribution in and around the Pyrenees, indicating some migration of Sardinians to that area. The Sardinian subtype is more closely related to the Croatian-Bosnian subtype than to the Scandinavian subtype. Sardinia also has a relatively high distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroup G, which results from people that migrated to Sardinia from Anatolia. Y-chromosome haplogroup G also has a relatively high concentration in and around the Pyrenees, again indicating migration of Sardinians to that area."...... link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardiniaand Levantine Heritage?...... www.levantine.plus.com/index.htmWell now........mmmmmmmmmmmmm deems more study...... Levites? Skytroll
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Post by crystalriver on Dec 3, 2008 11:24:23 GMT -5
The Age of Transitions (Video) 2008 12 02 Converging technology, transhumanism, and our future in the making. The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history ... Discovered at: www.redicecreations.com/ This video takes up where endgame from alex jones and estoreric agenda left off: tinyurl.com/5p2pc2above is video link
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Post by Awake on Dec 3, 2008 15:36:13 GMT -5
Transhumanism definitely will not lead to a beautiful futrue. Science is not progressing for our own good. They only seek to destory you under the pretence of "progress" morgellons is a product of this type of "inovation" Don't be deceived!
The only way out of this mess is to turn to god and obverve his rules of ethics. Our modern sociality has lost it when it comes to what is moraly right. There are dark forces at work in these sciences. Man is incapable of making ethical decisions, only god the creator can make the right guidlines.
Awake
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Post by crystalriver on May 5, 2009 8:25:19 GMT -5
Is this what is happening to our bodies --to everyones bodies?
Is it that those with Morgellons are not accepting the fibers?
Changing most of life on earth to fit the desires of a few--those whose bodies refuse, like those with Morgellons--what happens to them. Were we just guinea pigs for the PTW (powers that were)?
The show on the power hour will suggest Morgellons is the product of Transhumanism--I suggest it is correct --yet let it be known that those with this condition are not going along with the science; there bodies knew better. Albeit, it is a painful position to be in more times than not.
Many Blessings, CrystalRiver
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Post by crystalriver on Dec 20, 2009 13:08:18 GMT -5
ASU--Arizona State University ASU Adds Next Dimension To Transhumanism Research: The Prevail Project Seeks To Outwit Heaven And Hell If you've been paying attention to Tom Horn or have read Apollyon Rising 2012, you are familiar with the SOPHIA Project at ASU where researchers into Transhumanism want to know if they can make contact with supernatural or other-dimensional intelligence through genetically altering humans. Now, a new think tank at ASU promises to be at the cutting edge of thought about how our humanity can be maintained amidst rapidly growing scientific innovation. Joel Garreau, author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, Our Bodies -- And What it Means to be Human, has been appointed head of The Prevail Project: Wise Governance for Challenging Futures. "I'm interested in understanding who we are, how we got that way and where we're headed, and I'm intrigued by ASU because it has a lot of people who are actively making the future, creating novel life forms and thinking about what this means to society," Garreau said. As director of The Prevail Project, Garreau will build upon a concept he introduced in Radical Evolution, which takes an unprecedented look at the hinge in history at which the human race has arrived. In the past, technology was used to alter man's environment, but for the first [no, second] time, he explains, species-changing technologies are modifying people, their minds, metabolisms and children... The recent development of his book on radical science plays into the major research topics we are bursting in - military operations, national security and especially in the area of human enhancement... It is exploring new weapons and means of fighting wars, including enhanced human and robotic soldiers, which could bring profound changes to all aspects of society... asunews.asu.edu/20091217_GarreauLincolnProfessorDiscovered at: www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/
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Post by sarahconnor on Feb 28, 2011 19:14:57 GMT -5
The Potbelleez - Don't Hold Back
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2011 15:59:06 GMT -5
bump!
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