​Ascension
Reilly Jones
transhumanist future
Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural upward drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
Transhumanist Philosophy is the quest to enhance life and liberty through speciation. It is piloting an ascending course between idealism and materialism: the Tao, the Logos, the living arrow of creation. The self-organizing honing in on a moving point of purposeful disequilibrium in a dynamic pattern of increasing complexity. In Isaiah Berlin's words: "An unstable equilibrium in need of constant attention and repair.... an open future." Berlin adds: "The glory and dignity of man consist in the fact that it is he who chooses, and is not chosen for, that he can be his own master."
Consider the consequences of the concept that we are not one culture, that we are not one species, that we are not approaching one destiny, when thinking about the future... observe carefully the fences of a "one world order" philosophical stockyard that restricts our liberty, they are well camouflaged. Outside this globalist-open-borders stockyard, as J.R.R. Tolkien phrased it: "Resistance still had somewhere where it could take counsel free from the Shadow."
The concept of cultural unanimity is antithetical to the natural convergence of the American polity's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; namely, the right to culturally speciate in order to physically speciate, or not. We cannot all culturally speciate equally at once; therefore, such speciation optimally occurs under conditions where excellence is the social ideal and not under conditions where equality is the social ideal. Another way of expressing this is that evolutionary adaptability is nature's preferred upward social path.
Transhumanist Philosophy:
Study Guide to technological innovation and the transhumanist future: 1) my generalized preferences, 2) my recommendations for source material, 3) my evaluation methodology for source material and 4) short samples of my writing posted on this Website. Essays marked with * contain more technical material.
We must maintain the bootstrap to our past cultural history, to preserve the rich context necessary to be able to form and adapt consciences, aimed at a higher ideal than ourselves (self-idolaters) or than the state (progressives), during current conditions of rapid technological innovation.
Voices of Ascension - St. Hildegard von Bingen almost 900 years ago and still going strong
Conceptual History Timeline: Part I - Born up through 1860 AD
Conceptual History Timeline: Part II - Born after 1860 AD
Transhumanist Quotations - Thought Provoking
The 4 Latin governing principles of the modern Surveillance State (Deep State):
I) "Divide et impera" - (Divide and rule)
II) "Salus gubernantium suprema lex esto" - (Let the safety of rulers be the supreme law)
III) "Post iure" - (After the rule of law)
IV) "Imperium in imperio" - (A state within a state)
Technology shapes the culture of governance in patterned ways - the absence of surveillance fosters cultural speciation broadly but total surveillance only leads to cultural speciation by those controlling the surveillance. Thus, the primary purpose of the Deep State is to appropriate the only freely willed cultural futures for themselves, namely those holding security clearances. Other cultural futures are subject to repressive surveillance and can only develop by permission.
Ontology: Liquid Cosmology & Intentional Speciation* - Foundational to transhumanist philosophy; general relativity and quantum mechanics must be reconciled to establish foundational practical principles of intentional speciation:
Part I - Something is There
Part II - Liquid Cosmology
Part III - Principles of Intentional Speciation
Speciation Themes within the Transhumanist Universe of Frank Herbert's Dune - Themes of Cultural and Physical Speciation within the 6 Canonical Books (1965-1985)
Essays published onLINE
2004 - Ethics of Human Speciation - Transhumanist Ethics of the Quest to Enhance Life and Liberty
2003 December - Proposal to Attract and Retain World-Class Intellect - Initiative for Shaping Economic Transhumanist Futures
2003 August - Purpose of Education - Preparing the Individual for Future Conditions of Extreme Novelty
2001 - Science and Rationality * - What Constitutes the Scientific Method; the Valid Use of Probability; and Rationality The Philosophy of Biology (1993) by Elliott Sober & The Nature of Rationality (1993) by Robert Nozick
2001 - Ominous Crimson Glow - Total War between Limited Sovereignties and Global Tyranny New Science (1744) by Giambattista Vico & The Crooked Timber of Humanity (1990) by Isaiah Berlin (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Recycled Nihilism and Determinism - Antidote to the Disease of Monocultural Nihilism and Determinism The Life of Greece (1939) by Will Durant & The Killing of History (1997) by Keith Windschuttle (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Two American Traditions - Enhancing Liberty through Cultural Speciation Decline of the West (1918-1922) by Oswald Spengler & Dominations and Powers (1951) by George Santayana (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Epistemology * - The Trinitarian Aspect of Reality and How Speciation Follows Preferred Branches
2001 - Unity and the Death Wish - The Pluralistic Culture of Life vs the Monistic Culture of Death The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) by Miguel de Unamuno & Way to Wisdom (1951) by Karl Jaspers (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Scientific Nihilism: Conversation with a Physicist - The Revolt of the Masses (1930) by José Ortega y Gasset (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Defining Human: Transhumanist Intolerance - Evangelium Vitae (1995) by Pope John Paul II (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Cyber-Chartres: Part I - Design of Sacred Spaces Aiming at the Transcendent Realm (CC BY-SA 4.0)
2001 - Cyber-Chartres: Part II - Technology, Ideology, Worship and Culture (CC BY-SA 4.0)
1998 March - Transparent Monoculture Review of The Transparent Society by David Brin (1999)
Essays published in Extropy: The Journal of transhumanist thought
1996 2nd Half - A Critique of Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
1995 June - A History of Extropic Thought: Parallel Conceptual Development of Technicism and Humanism
1995 2nd/3rd Quarter - Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part II Conceptual Liquid Realm *
1995 1st Quarter - Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part I Review-Essay of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind by Gerald Edelman (1992) *
1994 3rd Quarter - Human-Directed Evolution Review of Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman (1993) *
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