"One must free oneself from one's ideas in writing, not take charge of them. One must free language from its purpose, free concepts from their meaning, free the world from its reality -- which is an even greater illusion."
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, Verso Radical Thinkers edition, London, 2007, p. 50
Labels: language, post modern, posthuman
THE WORLD COMMISSION ON GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS & SPIRITUALITY
"We conclude that the question is no longer whether a fundamental change is coming, but whether the change will be for the better or for the worse, when it will be coming and at what price. The sooner we pave the way to positive change, the less traumatic will be the transformation and the smaller its human, economic and ecological cost. All of us now share the responsibility of realizing that we live at the tipping point of contemporary civilization and for recognizing that informed thinking and responsible acting are needed to bring us to the threshold of a civilization that is truly peaceful and sustainable."- Budapest Declaration, Dec. 20, 2004
Labels: peace, posthuman, transformation, wisdom
"...at least one of the following propositions is true:The Simulation Argument
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Labels: future, posthuman, simulation
