GF 2045: Race For Inner Space: Seeing, Guiding, and Benefitting from Humanity's Faster, Smaller, Smarter, and Wealthier Future

Here is a transcription of John Smart's speech at the Global Future 2045 Conference  in Moscow.

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Why Some Form Of Transhumanism Must Come (UPDATED)...

Transhumanism will come, in some form - and soon.
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Reading And Writing Will Go... Wonderful! 3

It is time for us to leave reading and writing where it belongs. . . in the past, and lurch forward into our future.
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Reading and Writing Will Go... Wonderful! 2

Are reading and writing essential to culture?  Can we live without them as we now know them?
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Reading & Writing Will Go . . . Wonderful! 1

Are we headed to a world where reading and writing will fade as unimportant skills?  Some say yes and some say that this is good!
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Book Review: Race Against The Machines

Are we on the verge of totally new social and economic paradigm brought about by the increasing power of computation in our machines?

Are Humans Ready to Undertake a Radical Evolution?

Are we close to a major transformation of humanity?  Are we going to change ourselves to the point that we would barely recognize ourselves?

A Brief History of Humanism 4b

Anton Mesmer Marquis de Puysegur and "animal magnetism" - how were they connected to transhumanism?

A Brief History Of Transhumanism 4

Victor Frankenstein, Galvani, Aldini, Andre Ure, Johann Dippel,  - all transhumanists?  Let us investigate.

A Brief History Of Transhumanism 3b

The Count de St. Germain,  how could he be considered transhumanist?  Find out here.

The Destruction of Unwanted Space/Time (working title)

THERE ARE THESE DARK MOMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

THEY ARE HELL, AND WE WILL DESTROY THEM.

A Brief History Of Transhumanism 3a

In this part of our series we further explore the pre-scientific efforts at transcending the limits of humanity.

A Brief History Of Transhumanism 1

How old is the transhumanist desire in man?  We suspect very old indeed.

The World Is Pregnant: (3/3) And Facebook Is Its Baby

facebook - Today over 600 million users are creating it, inputting so many thoughts, so much information. Facebook is part of us all. Facebook is our baby.

The World Is Pregnant: (2/3) Sex and Knowledge

Part 2 of our series catches human sex and knowledge in the act of a major paradigm shift.

The World Is Pregnant: (1/3) Meet, Merge, and Repeat

This exclusive 3 part series explores collective consciousness, sex, technology, and philosophy which all leads up to a conclusion so profound you may never look at social networking the same way again.

Why Christianity & Transhumanism Are Not Enemies 2

More reasons why Christianity and Transhumanism share very similar basic values.

Why Christianity & Transhumanism Are Not Enemies

Are Transhumanism and Christianity inherently opposed to each other?  We think not.  Here's why.

Are Wall Street Computers Making Their Own Decisions?

Are computers controlling our economic future?  IS the entire world economy based on algorithms?

We're Going To Need A Lot More Emoticons

We can't imagine 4-dimensional space, we can't see the color infrared, neither do we have the sense or sonar, but we will via technology, and with these gains in perceptions our emotions will change too...


To set the stage for what I'm going to propose I will first give 3 examples of perceptions humans currently can not experience.

1. Computers can think in 4-dimensional space, we can't. The image below is sequential 3D slices or shadows of a 4D cube, or hypercube. Since we can not perceive or display 4-dimensional space the best representation we can do is slice a 4-dimensional object into 3D plains, much like slicing a 3D potato into what appears to be 2D slivers. This is how a hypercube would appear if it were to slide through our 3-dimensional space.

hypercube

2. We only have 5 sensory imputs : touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. While a 6th sense or "3rd eye" is commonly fabled, we are generally limited to the basic five. Some animals however do have a 6th sense. Dolphins and bats have mastered the sense of sonar. Sharks have electroreception and can detect even the weakest electromagnetic fields given off by all living things. Humans are starting to gain sensory inputs via technology. Crude body modifications such as magnetic implants allow for detection of strong electromagnetic fields.

the 5 human senses

3. Our eyes can only see in color. We only can see into the visible light spectrum which goes from violet to dark red. While ultra violet and infrared are just out of our spectrum many insects see into these spectrums of light; ultraviolet flowers attract certain insects, while other bugs see infrared as a night vision. Our technology can detect the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared night goggles, radiographs, radio receivers, microwave radar, and radiation detectors are all rather old technologies. Some have peered beyond the visible light spectrum using just their biological eyes. During World War II the army conducted successful tests by altering soldiers' diets so they could see infrared, however this project was dumped because of technological advances. Seeing ultraviolet is just scratching the surface, see the chart below.

electromagnetic spectrum

As technology advances and we transcend biology our abilities to perceive the world directly will expand. New sensory inputs and intelligence levels will go far beyond that of biology. How will these changes shape us, as we are able to think in multiple dimensions and sense the universe in unimaginable ways? Just as reptiles are only capable of primitive emotions such as fear, humans are only capable of the emotions which we have evolved up to. New emotions will be discovered as we transcend biology. Some people today will fail to understand this possibility and say that the known emotions are all encompassing. Those critics should look at a color wheel and try to imagine the missing colors. We can't even imagine 4 spacial dimensions, the dimensions of emotions that are yet to be discovered are even more unimaginable. This is the essence of the singularity.