9/08/2008 Permalink
Evolving from humans (homo sapiens) to humods (homo novo) and building a more resilient civilization 2.0

What are HUMODS? : beings able to proactively modify and enhance their own designs : seekers of more resilient designs for their own minds, bodies and worldviews : homo novo - the species one step beyond homo sapiens on the phylogenetic tree. [Latin : homo = man : sapiens = wise, rational : novo = to make anew, refresh, revive, change, alter, invent]

Meme 1: Our Cosmos generates within itself an endless abundance of unique lifeforms and places those lifeforms in a survival of the fittest threat matrix that spawns the constant evolution of increasing levels of complexity.

Meme 2: By intermittently generating mega-challenges for the lifeforms within it, our Cosmos functions as an intelligence generation engine.

Rogue asteroids, comets and black holes, ice age causing super volcanoes, species-ending plagues, atmosphere stripping cosmic dust clouds, planet scorching mega solar flares and gamma ray burst -- all serve to insure the extinction of any species that fails to quickly enough develop sufficient intelligence to anticipate and deal with such threats.

Meme 3: In our Cosmos, extropy is life. Using our open minds and open science to delve into the nature of the Cosmos is the key to our survival.

Those that constantly rethink, refine and adjust their techniques to better meet the opportunities and challenges ahead are richly rewarded with knowledge that cures their diseases, lengthens their lifespans, makes their tools more powerful, their toils less burdensome and their lives more rewarding.

Meme 4: Dogmas are death. Our Cosmos extracts terrible penalties from those that adopt dogmas, the destroyer of extropy. Struggles over conflicting tribal, cultural and religious dogmas have taken an uncountable number of lives. Dogmas have plunged entire civilizations into famine and ruin. Dogmas ultimately produce only deprivation, starvation, stagnation, superstition and fear.

Meme 5: Fostering, embracing and thriving on rapid change is essential to developing the resilience necessary for our species to avoid extinction.

Meme 6: Avidly pursue technologies empowering you to extend and expand your cognitive capability and lifespan. Such upgrades are essential to the survival of our kind.

Meme 7: Strive to discovery, develop and maximize your own unique talents.

Meme 8:Oppose the utilization of super-empowering technologies for destruction, terror, surveillance and control.

Meme 9: Systems should be designed to be open, resilient, and foster the fastest possible creation of new knowledge, innovation and utility.

Meme 10: State intellectual property monopolies sold as foster innovation, actually tend to stifle it.

Meme 11: Concentrations of power should always be kept as small as possible.

Meme 12:Bureaucracies are a dangerous form of entropy that destroys a civilization's ability to maintain sufficient levels of resilience to remain healthy and avoid collapse.

Meme 13: Admire knowledge seekers, innovators and creators of new utility, not celebrities or players of war-like games.

Meme 14: Spreading these memes to as many other capable minds as possible is vital to the survival of our kind.

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