Dupuy’s “anti-humanism”

The third article in the June 2008 special anti-transhumanist issue of The Global Spiral is “Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition”, by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, director of the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée at the École Polytechnique, Paris.

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Posted by Russell Blackford  on  06/30  at  07:11 PM

That should, of course, be "Jean-Pierre" not "John-Pierre". I've corrected it in my original post at Metamagician and the Hellfire Club. Any chance that it can be corrected here as well?

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  07/08  at  03:03 PM

The whole idea of that paper seemed a bit silly to me. There were some valid points as you mentioned, but when fully considered they advise caution, something important with all new technologies. That is why we test new things so religiously.

Altering ourselves and our environments is something that we do all the time. If you really don't want any of it you would have to walk everywhere live in a jungle and use only your bare hands to survive. The only reason humans have emerged as the dominant species on the planet is because of our use of technology, and if we plan on one day dominating the stars we are going to have to develop a whole lot more.

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