- Putting out fires (Andart)
Anders Sandberg responds to Bill McGuire's review of Global Catastrophic Risks. - The Human Priority (Promoting the Progress)
The message of transhumanism - the hope that inheres in the enhancement of human capability seems overrated to me. - Will Genetic Engineering Ruin Sports? (Women's Bioethics Blog)
Where will the idea of sports go with the introduction (and advancement) of genetic engineering? Will such technology, which has high hopes in enhancing ourselves to be better humans, ruin the very idea of sports? - The God That Failed: The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult (Chris Floyd)
Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command.
- Brain surgery with a banjo (Neurophilosophy)
The BBC has some film footage of the legendary Bluegrass musician Eddie Adcock playing the banjo whilst having his brain operated on. - The Science of Meditation (The Buddhist Blog)
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning technology to watch the meditating mind at work.
It is my fervent hope that genetic engineering will provide for such a state of enhancement and potential, as to eliminate competitive sports, because the playing field and even the very definitions will be so changed, as to no longer be meaningful as they are now. Just as hunting and killing defenseless birds is entirely repulsive and completely unnecessary, so too will competitive sports be unnescessary in the greater scheme of things, and especially for sentient beings who are majorly involved in ever-increasing evolution. As potential and enhancement are availabe to more and more sentient beings, and as what sentient being becomes both in meaning and experience, I am hoping that competition in all of its forms, will be entirely edited out. Evolved sentient beings, whether human or transhuman, will, in my view, no longer need or want competition. Having transcended competition, we will have removed a major existential bottleneck, and the straitjacket of a limiting, and even unnecessary status quo, will be gone, and then the future will contain many new and wonderful horizons.
ReplyDeleteIt is, in my view, time to move beyond competition, and especially competitive sports, and begin to start some major evolutions.