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Writing in any form is always and essentially an act of trust. The writer trusts that he has something to say, something that he is able to say, something worth saying. He trusts that an audience, even an audience consisting solely of his future self, will find it so. He trusts the words to communicate what he intends to communicate – a dubious proposition to anyone who has reflected on the nature of language. Even a writer who writes, intentionally, to deceive trusts, with the uneasy trust of the co-conspirator who can never be sure if his trust is well-placed. And he trusts those being deceived to be as gullible as he needs them to be – a dubious proposition for anyone who has ever studied history.
In this time of information overload, with some arguing for complete disclosure of one’s personal life and others who wish everybody would keep some things to themselves, a new wrinkle has emerged. One has to trust that what he is sharing will not damn him in the eyes of some real or imagined future employer. The professional is supposed to be walled off from the personal – Facebook on the left hand and LinkedIn on the right, and never the twain should meet.
I think this is the most dubious proposition of all.
I’m not about to launch into a polemic in defense of full internet disclosure. There are others who can do that better than I can, mostly because I don’t necessarily believe in it. But I write all of this as a maybe long-winded way of saying that its about to get personal.
But before I go further, please accept this comic that I did not draw: (more…)
I have a lot of buried emotions. Going back to childhood and further still, I learned to repress a lot of things – anger, sadness, wildness, hurt, rejection, vulnerability, pain of all kinds. I learned- rightly or wrongly, by whatever degree- that to act out my emotions would embarrass or harm me.
When I learned about the Tao (substitute ‘the need for inner peace’ if that has bothersome connotations for you), I mapped my repressive patterns onto it. In other words, every hurt that I was unwilling to feel, every fear and resentment and wounded affection, I buried, hid from others and myself, so that I could appear put together.
The ever-interesting SmartPlanet recently featured a post on transhumanism, a fascinating philosophical movement that amounts to a sort of technotheology that has, for its adherents, very practical implications.
To refer to transhumanism as such is not to dismiss it but to give due credit to its scope. For man transhumanists, their central concern is the Singularity – the point at which artificial intelligence outstrips human intelligence and beyond which predicting anything becomes impossible. Click on that link and explore the Humanity Plus website for a fuller picture of the transhumanist movement.
A quick Google search reveals that Islamic thinkers have also considered transhumanism:
My point in all of this is not to plug for transhumanism as a philosophy or movement; but as a reporter interested in science, and a science fiction geek, it is one of those weird and wonderful intellectual areas where fact and fiction get promiscuous, and where anything is possible.
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