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| 11:00:22 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: OK, time to start? |
| 11:00:27 | SLacker | Sat Batra: Well for me Transhumanism / the Church of Virus replaced earlier religious experimentation. It fullfills my needs in this regard mostly. |
| 11:00:56 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: I'd like to begin my welcoming Giulio to our weekly chat |
| 11:01:02 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: thanks |
| 11:01:12 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: the topic this week is "Engineering Transcendence" |
| 11:01:16 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: http://uvvy.com/index.php/Engineering_Transcendence |
| 11:01:23 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: I am a newcomer, first time here. have been reading on CoV |
| 11:01:29 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: will have a lot of questions |
| 11:01:37 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow nods |
| 11:01:39 | SLacker | Sat Batra: feel free Guilio |
| 11:02:01 | SLacker | Sat Batra: futura welcome guilio |
| 11:02:03 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: First I'd like to give Giulio the opportunity to give a little background to his essay |
| 11:02:10 | SLacker | Futura: That is deep. |
| 11:02:13 | pickles | pickles (~pickles@[death to spam].host-84-9-47-236.bulldogdsl.com) has quit IRC [Ping timeout] |
| 11:02:35 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: thanks. do I start now? |
| 11:02:36 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: What motivated writing it? |
| 11:02:45 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: Yes, please go ahead |
| 11:03:08 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: I am happy enough with transhumamism as it his |
| 11:03:25 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: and never felt any personal need for any "spiritual" dimension |
| 11:04:03 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: this is probably true for most of us, but I have come to realize that the vast majority of people need a >"spirituL" dimension |
| 11:04:14 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: or, using the terminology in my essay... |
| 11:04:34 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: we are all weak thinkers, but most "audiences" would want strong thinking |
| 11:04:41 | SLacker | Sat Batra nods |
| 11:04:49 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: What do you mean by "spiritual" here? |
| 11:04:56 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: so I thought of a possible reformulation of h+ in "strong thought" terms |
| 11:05:31 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: thinking |
| 11:05:59 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: as I use the term, spiritual is something that also appeals to non-rational sphere. bit like art |
| 11:06:08 | SLacker | Lucifer Darrow: aesthetics? |
| 11:06:15 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: and the challenge is to go spiritual without renouncing reason |
| 11:06:22 | SLacker | Giulio Perhaps: y aesthetics |
