[MD] Transhumanism

[Joseph Maurer]

On 6/15/10 10:32 AM, "Krimel" <Krimel at Krimel.com> wrote:

Hi Krimel,
 
Your enthusiasm is breathtaking and wonderful!  Thank You!  I take your
meaning for ³dummies² to be ³mathematically challenged².  I have locked
myself into a cage with ³1² so that maybe 2 will make sense.  I think I see
the 1 of mathematics and logic, but I am damned if I can corral the ³1² of
evolution except by a word ³individuation².  To go from 1 to a ³higher
intellectual² capability is an evolutionary stretch that I don¹t see
clearly.  Maybe if I sit in my playpen long enough with my excrement for a
plaything something will occur to me since I am too old to go back to
school.
 
Joe

<snip>
> I recently read and plan to reread a book
> by Luciano Floridi call "Information". It is part of the Oxford University
> Press Very Short Introduction series. Which means it is very short but not
> really for dummies. In it he outlines a philosophy of information which I
> think covers a lot of ground that Pirsig touched on and pointed towards but
> could not see clearly. A shame really.
<snip>