Sunday, December 31, 2006

I have the feeling George Dvorsky doesn't realize just how right he is.

Here's a smart guy who's comfortable talking about existential risks, genetic uplift and ubiquitous surveillance -- but seems unwilling to consider that we might be engaged in a symbolic dialogue with an intelligence that purposefully camouflages itself using the belief system as its disposal. Or that we might be dealing with something so profoundly alien that our minds utilize familiar concepts in order to make sense of it.
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Anonymous said...

For people who like to fancy themselves the intellectual vanguard, certain Transhumanists can be as dogmatic and narrow-minded as any religious zealot.

12:13 AM
Morgaine said...

"Or ... so profoundly alien that our minds utilize familiar concepts in order to make sense of it."

That's what the human brain is wired to do - when it confronts something unfamiliar, it searches for a familiar label to describe it. People don't look at shadows and see monsters - they look at monsters and see shadows. This is the primary reason we shouldn't be so quick to discount eyewitness testimony to strange phenomena from reliable sources. People just aren't that creative.

4:44 AM
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