The only pattern of thought that I hope becomes extinct is the one that makes people assume other's beliefs are 'hindering superstitions'.
Well in my opinion that's pretty clear. I'm talking about the ancient religions here, not beliefs in general.
But just look at the recent trend. Thousands of years of an almost entirely religious population, and now, in Westernised society, the atheist population has exploded in the last century.
This is basic extrapolation here, you'd be blind not to see what's happening.
But, believe it or not, i am an optimist. I think, if people wake up to the futility of war and put their dramatic patriotism aside, and begin to seek the value of life then these technological advancements in science could brings some amazing changes to the world, though i still hold strong reservations about a transhumanist movement.
Yes indeed, although my concern would be largely on a smaller scale, as there could be a very large and potentially violent social rift within countries should transhuman technologies become a reality...
What was it again, anthropological principle? There always is someone living at 'a special time'. You happen to be that someone. To think "NAAAAH THIS CAN BE COINCIDENCE MAN TEH CHANCE IS TO SMALL!", is the same as winning the lottery and attributing it to god. Someone has to win the fucking lottery. Mankind happens to have an exponentional growth (number-wise and technology-wise), and you happen to be at a certain point in history. BOO-FUCKING-HOO. Get over yourself. Nothing to see here, move along.
Anyhow. I expected more of you, Xei.
In that case I suppose you also expect more of the various incredibly intelligent people who also support the anthropic (anthropological..?) principle... I first heard about it from Stephen Hawking, personally.
Of course somebody has to win the lottery, but the point is that I won the lottery. Unless you have formulated scientific theory of consciousness which disproves anthropic reasoning, it seems highly plausible to me that it's a toss up between a one in a million chance, or a logical explanation. It only seems rational to go for the logical explanation option, in my eyes.
Some people are just fucking retarded. Ancient religions might slim down to 20%, but until we make sure education and rational thinking are promoted, it´s hard to get rid of people that are willing to believe anything. Maybe just gas all the people with to much DRD4 in their brains, genes causing that make you a gullible fucknut, research indicates.
Personally I'm very open to the possibility that there will be no religion at all in a century or so. As I already mentioned, there is a huge rate of loss of theism at the moment compared to our relatively huge religious pasts, and as far as I can tell, the more people who are atheist, the smaller the number of children forced into theism, and so the rate actually increases over time.
Think about it like the religions of the ancient societies; they died out fairly quick and now 0 people on Earth believe in them. I don't see why the current religions shouldn't potentially go the same way.
Don't know. I think that bio-technology, if it will keep developing as it is, will really alter some of the old, dogmatic, intuitive world-views people have. Religions and soul-loving belief-systems will have no ground to stand on, and the very way we look at society and politics may alter. Less blind ideologies, more goals and rationalising of poltics we can all agree on. Or something.
What about the implications for the physical mind though? Do you think a scientific theory of consciousness will emerge? If it did, would that be the nail in the coffin for all forms of dualism and religion?
Don't you mean "boy of science and logic"?
Anyway, its pretty clear that soon we will be slaves to robots or China will become the new super power. So yeah, it depends alot of what China will do when its all poweful.
I am 17... ;_;
China will almost definitely become a greater power than America, that's for sure... not so sure about slaves to robots though. Why the hell would they want to keep us when they could make... other robots. :/
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