IEET Board member Giulio Prisco spoke at the Modern Cosmism meetingin NYC on October 10, 2015.




I will argue that intelligent life among the stars might be advanced beyond our understanding and able to influence space-time events anytime, anywhere, including here and now, steer the evolution of the physical universe with space-time engineering, resurrect the dead from the past, and elevate love and compassion to the status of fundamental forces, key drivers for the evolution of the universe.

Far future generations of evolved, post-biological humans might spread to the stars and join the community of extremely advanced civilizations. This Cosmist vision, based on science, is essentially equivalent to religion and can play a similar role.

I will present the work of the Turing Church, a working group that operates at the intersection of highly imaginative science, technology, and spirituality, to outline a minimalist, open, extensible Cosmist vision based on science but able to offer the emotional benefits of religion without the flaws of many traditional religions. Finally, I will discuss possible options and strategies to offer mental and emotional wellness, based on our Cosmist vision, to a wider audience.

Cosmism defines Cosmic Time as a lifespan of a single dimension of Being. Let's explain it with an analogy. Ultimately we are dealing with the balance of life and death or more philosophically with the dualism of Ying-Yang or dialectics of Being and Nothing. Being is eternal but temporal, limited but borderless at the same time because a non-infinite state is a necessarily condition for any existence.

IEET Board member Giulio Prisco spoke at the Modern Cosmism meetingin NYC on October 10, 2015.




I will argue that intelligent life among the stars might be advanced beyond our understanding and able to influence space-time events anytime, anywhere, including here and now, steer the evolution of the physical universe with space-time engineering, resurrect the dead from the past, and elevate love and compassion to the status of fundamental forces, key drivers for the evolution of the universe.

Far future generations of evolved, post-biological humans might spread to the stars and join the community of extremely advanced civilizations. This Cosmist vision, based on science, is essentially equivalent to religion and can play a similar role.

I will present the work of the Turing Church, a working group that operates at the intersection of highly imaginative science, technology, and spirituality, to outline a minimalist, open, extensible Cosmist vision based on science but able to offer the emotional benefits of religion without the flaws of many traditional religions. Finally, I will discuss possible options and strategies to offer mental and emotional wellness, based on our Cosmist vision, to a wider audience.

Cosmism defines Cosmic Time as a lifespan of a single dimension of Being. Let's explain it with an analogy. Ultimately we are dealing with the balance of life and death or more philosophically with the dualism of Ying-Yang or dialectics of Being and Nothing. Being is eternal but temporal, limited but borderless at the same time because a non-infinite state is a necessarily condition for any existence.

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