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Maggie AppletonEmbodied KnowledgeMaggieThe transhumanist ideal that is a little bit religious in many ways.
Its ideal is to escape embodiment, right?
Like all the rhetoric around, well, not just living in the cloud,
but not caring as much about your body
or it being a burden or weight.
You have to upkeep it.
It's talked about as this inconvenient thing.
It doesn't allow you to just like fly through cyberspace, right?
This is like the VR dream of everyone wanting
to just put on headsets and not have to deal with that physicality.
That's funny. I hadn't ever thought of the contrast between those two.
And I wonder if then transhumanism is some sort of reaction
to maybe some of the more traditional religious beliefs.
HenryActually, even in revelation, when Christ comes back,
we talk about this idea of new heavens and new earth.
And we will all have new bodies.
And so whatever that means,
there is a belief that we will still have a body,
we're not just a spirit, right.
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Influences
“People need new tools to work with rather than tools that “work” for them.”
“the attempt to overwhelm present problems by the production of more science is the ultimate attempt to solve a crisis by escalation”
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
“To the degree that he masters his tools, he can invest the world with his meaning; to the degree that he is mastered by his tools, the shape of the tool determines his own self-image.”
“Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision”
“The processes that occur in cities are not arcane, capable of being understood only by experts. They can be understood by almost anybody.”
“City processes in real life are too complex to be routine, too particularized for application as abstractions. They are always made up of interactions among unique combinations of particulars, and there is no substitute for knowing the particulars.”
“Inductive reasoning of this kind is, again, something that can be engaged in by ordinary, interested citizens, and again they have the advantage over planners.”
“Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity, like the life sciences.”
“There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been.”
“I never came into the Church as a person who was being taught. I came in on my knees. That is the only way in.”
“When man worshipped pagan idols, it meant the worshipping of tools.”
“Under electric conditions, participation is inevitable.”
“Passivity is not for man; creativity is mandatory.”
“In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.”
“They hypnotize themselves with the figure so as to better ignore the ground. They prefer to study the words rather than the questions that Christ asks everywhere, and of every human being.”
“But, the eye isn’t a unifying force. It tends towards fragmentation.”
“The revelation is of thing, not theory.”
“Analogy is not a concept. It is resonance. It is inclusive.”
“Proponents of a new system can convince their audience only by first winning their intellectual sympathy for a doctrine they have not yet grasped.”
“Those who listen sympathetically will discover for themselves what they would otherwise never have understood.”
“Such an acceptance is a heuristic process, a self-modifying act, and to this extent a conversion.”
“believe before we know, and in order that we may know”
“But I am not re-asserting traditionalism here for the purpose of supporting dogmatism.”
“The professional standards of science must impose a framework of discipline and at the same time encourage rebellion against it.”
“The authority of scientific tradition enforces the teachings of science in general for the very purpose of fostering their subversion in the particular.”
“Personal knowledge is an intellectual commitment, and as such inherently hazardous.”
“It’s not that I know in order to love, but rather: I love in order to know.”
