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LinkedInYears ago, while watching one of my favorite series of videos - Leonard Bernstein's The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard - I heard him use a phrase that has stuck with me ever since, and indeed informed much of my writing. That phrase was "the Tower of Babel Moment of History." I have written about this meme in many books, most recently in The Grid of the Gods and in Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas with Dr Scott de Hart. On any view, if one looks at the progress of modern science and technology, it would appear that the ancient legends are being fulfilled, or, if … [Read more...]
EGGS FROM STEM CELLS: SOME POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF THE TRANSHUMANIST FUTURE
November 14, 2012 By
In Transhumanism: A Grimoire of AlchemicalAgendas, Dr Scott de Hart and I pointed out that the basic agenda behind transhumanism, as a philosophical movement or meditation upon humanity's future, seems to be at root fundamentally alchemical, since it follows the path of ascent from animal, to vegetable, to mineral, and finally, to androgynous man. Crucial to this emerging philosophical meditation are the so-called GRIN technologies: Genetics, Robotics, Information-processing, and Nanotechnologies. In that book, we likewise advanced the hypothesis that androgyny, in the ancient myths, was … [Read more...]