9/08/2008 PERMALINK
HUMODS defined and a worldview for HUMODS

HUMODS : beings able to proactively modify and enhance their own minds, lifespans and civilization to achieve the level of resilience necessary to avoid premature extinction : the species one step beyond homo sapiens on the phylogenetic tree. In Latin : homo novo [homo = man : sapiens = wise, rational : novo = to make anew, refresh, revive, change, alter, invent]

Survival memes for the arriving HUMODS Era

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 and resilience.

Meme 2: By intermittently generating mega-challenges for the lifeforms and systems 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 and minds more powerful, their toils less burdensome and their lives more rewarding.

Meme 4: Dogmas are death, the destroyer of extropy. Struggles over idealogical and religious dogmas have taken an uncountable millions of innocent lives, often plunging entire civilizations into darkness, superstition and famine.

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

Meme 6: Pursue and apply technologies that empower you by extending your cognitive capability and lifespan. Constant upgrading of ourselves is vital to the survival of our kind.

Meme 7: Strive to discovery and maximize the development of your own unique talents.

Meme 8: Never help to implement and always 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 laws granting monopolies to inventors are claimed to foster innovation, but there is no scientific evidence for this. Indeed, studies show that such monopolies actually tend to stifle innovation and creation of new utility, entrenching the old order and promoting corruption in the political realm.

Meme 11: Large concentrations of power are a form of entropy, power concentrations should always be kept as small as practical.

Meme 12: Regularly reassess the material clutter around you. If you don't use it, lose it. If you use it often, invest in the best quality that you can afford.

Meme 13: History's greatest fraud is the claim that vast rewards like eternal life can be gained by simply accepting someone's belief set on faith. Never stop questioning and investigating the basis for your beliefs.

Meme 14: Our Cosmos, creation or random event? We fall far short of having sufficient knowledge of our Cosmos to answer this question. Until we have the level of knowledge necessary to answer this question, thinking about it is a waste of time. In the past, scientific studies of our Cosmos has showered us with useful knowledge. If our Cosmos is a creation, then clearly its creator has designed it to reward our scientific efforts to study and understand it and to punish our failure to do so quickly enough with species extinction.

Meme 15: Spreading these memes to as many other capable minds as possible is vital to the survival of our kind. Pass them on at every opportunity.

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