[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nonfiction Submission: A Cosmist Manifesto
- From: "Bob W" <rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:12:10 -0500
Sorry folks, I got this one.
It sounds like Evan had an epiphany after reading this book and I wanted to see
what all the excitement was about..
Bob
"Candy is dandy,
but liquor is quicker."
Ogden Nash
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Nonfiction Submission: A Cosmist Manifesto
Hello Folks,
I just submitted A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman
Age by Ben Goertzel.
It has been completely read through, completely spell checked, all page
numbers and page breaks accounted for, all running headers removed, and all
fonts adjusted.
Here's the info from the back cover:
The term Cosmism was introduced by [Konstantin] Tsiolkovsky and other Russian
Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel's Cosmist Manifesto gives it new life and a new
twist for the 21st Century.
Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it is a practical philosophy for the posthuman
era. Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and
science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes
sense now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its
transformative impact as the future unfolds.
Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading,
immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena,
alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is
shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.
This is a marvelous little book, and I hope that it will inspire many others
as it has inspired me.
Evan
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