http://www.kurzweilai.net/reinventing-the-body-resurrecting-the-soul-how-to-create-a-new-you Accelerating Intelligence Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/reinventing-the-body-resurrecting-the-soul-how-to-create-a-new-you/comment-page-1#comment-4279 Cassini Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:25:28 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=123170#comment-4279 Sam Harris about Chopra: he is "the very definition of what we mean by pseudoscience.” Transhumanists = we want more life here and now. Philosophies of New Age and pseudoscience = you are an immortal spirit. Don’t worry with death, keep doing your shopping at the mall. This type of proximity (I would say the same about Timothy Ferriss in SingularityU, taking into account the critical comments I read on TED) scares the more skeptical and demanding minds. The desire for improve yourself is very positive, but is the commercial literature of self-help the best vehicle for this desire? I think this approach is extremely harmful in the long term. We need to go beyond the Enlightenment (a renewed optimistic and democratic enlightenment) and not return to wallowing in the mud of the Middle Ages or exploit the ignorance of the masses as has been done in the twentieth century. Sam Harris about Chopra: he is “the very definition of what we mean by pseudoscience.”
Transhumanists = we want more life here and now.
Philosophies of New Age and pseudoscience = you are an immortal spirit. Don’t worry with death, keep doing your shopping at the mall.
This type of proximity (I would say the same about Timothy Ferriss in SingularityU, taking into account the critical comments I read on TED) scares the more skeptical and demanding minds. The desire for improve yourself is very positive, but is the commercial literature of self-help the best vehicle for this desire?
I think this approach is extremely harmful in the long term. We need to go beyond the Enlightenment (a renewed optimistic and democratic enlightenment) and not return to wallowing in the mud of the Middle Ages or exploit the ignorance of the masses as has been done in the twentieth century.

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