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Hey, wake up humanists. We are all doom!

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Hey, wake up humanists. We are all doom!

#1 Post by coffee » September 28th, 2016, 9:19 pm

No more human rights? Wait. No more lawyers??

https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2016/09/2 ... more-31581

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#2 Post by coffee » January 1st, 2017, 9:43 pm

Continue with the subject (don't forget the comments at the end of the article )

http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-rev ... GlxDPmLTIV

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#3 Post by coffee » January 4th, 2017, 8:38 pm


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Re: Hey, wake up humanists. We are all doom!

#4 Post by Zeff » January 14th, 2017, 5:27 pm

Positive Future = Positive Timeline + Unity Consciousness

A key discovery promulgated in this paper is that (1) a critical mass of humanity is (2) co-creating a positive future, through conscious acknowledgement that (3) we are synergistically traveling along a positive timeline (4) in Unity consciousness...
http://www.positivefuture.info/

(Sorry, no time for doom or gloom :-)

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#5 Post by coffee » February 5th, 2017, 6:17 pm

Humanist may have to prepare adapt for 21st century

Imagining the Next Generation of Humanities Research
We need systematic, coordinated institutional efforts to chart a viable future for the humanities in the 21st century, argues Robert Frodeman.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/20 ... them-essay

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#6 Post by coffee » March 3rd, 2017, 1:19 pm

"The universe only allows for two possibilities: Determinism and randomness. There is no room for "freedom". Humans invented the idea of freedom just as they invented the idea of heaven and hell. Sensations and emotions are just biochemical calculations."


"But all good things must come to an end. The very science that Humanism supported has come to show that the basic principles of Humanism are based on false concepts. In particular, free will. Feelings are biochemical processes. Given enough data, an external entity can understand my feelings and make better decisions for me than I can!"


It said here

https://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=182389

Where will humanists go now?


I think I will stick with these :smile:
http://www.restorativeempathy.com/Unive ... mpathy.pdf

http://www.restorativeempathy.com/Feeli ... mpathy.pdf

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#7 Post by coffee » March 10th, 2017, 2:04 pm

“Maybe the collapse of humanism will also be beneficial.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 3f0a433dce

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#8 Post by coffee » March 13th, 2017, 10:21 am

"ARE LIBERALS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY?"

Three new books interrogate the premises of the Enlightenment.
By Adam Gopnik

More about it is here
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/ ... of-history

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#9 Post by coffee » April 28th, 2017, 7:02 pm

bbc radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050kvn ... a&ns_fee=0

Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
The Inquiry

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality – from the Stone Age onwards – and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge “economically useless” underclass, unable to keep up with enhanced humans, the owners of increasingly valuable data and, eventually, artificial intelligence.

Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Estelle Doyle Editor: Richard Knight

(Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, Credit: Daniel Thomas Smith)

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