Cybernet David

A blog exploring the weird wonders of transhumanism as philosophy and lifestyle, with in-depth discussions on ethics, technology, ASI, and the future of humanity.

Category: Philosophy

  • On the Question Concerning Technology: Interrogation and transhumanist review

    Martin Heidegger’s seminal essay On the Question Concerning Technology was recommended to me by a dear friend after a close reading of my last blog post, “Transhumanist Philosophizing”. Here I make a small and humble attempt to interrogate the text, which I found here and to begin to examine its implications for transhumanist thought.  What…

  • Transhumanist philosophizing

    If the function and purpose of a philosopher is to philosophize, the designation as such must be characterized as a verb, that is to say, a state of active doing, which would also seem to suggest that philosophy is “for” something and that it produces results. The transhumanist philosophers occupy a special niche in that…

  • Ikebana experiments with Gemini

    One of the more commonly overlooked goals of transhumanism, if I may say so, is the use of automated tools and novel technologies for aesthetic exploration and refinement. We are now living in the best era yet to be an asthete and philosopher of beauty, for the outsourcing of cognition allows amplification of vision. The…