If it seems hard to get your mind around what THEE is about you are not alone.  This Taxonomy is a «Big New Idea».  I had trouble grasping it for many, many years. 

I just kept going: finding useful patterns and making useful distinctions in a state of unknowing.  Now I am clearer.  Mainly due to banging my head against reality, first trying this and then trying that. 

You have no idea how many times I have drafted the sort of explanations provided in the public pages of this website.

It must relate to my bête noir, Change-RL3.  As I noted in another blog, there are over 4 billion hits when you Google: "why people don't change". More...

Transhumanism is an exciting movement.  For those who have an allergy to technology and have not come across the movement, it is the school of thought that says AI (or at least AGI—Artificial General Intelligence), computing technology, robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology are going to create a world beyond human comprehension.  There will be machines, or rather beings, who surpass us so greatly that we cannot argue or fight back.  Think of evolution and competition for niches. As we are creating our own competition, the pros and cons need some consideration.

Attitudes in the transhumanist movement vary.  I have no argument with continuing progress in technology.  In my view, despite inevitable drawbacks, technology has produced and will go on producing immeasurable benefits for mankind. 

But when the movement starts More...

Are the frameworks in the taxonomy, THEE, the product of empirical inquiry?

Yes—if you mean they are based on accumulating replicable observations of actual phenomena.  This is what empirical inquiry is about. 

No—if you mean they are developed via conventional sense perceptions of concrete physical objects.  This is what the prevailing materialistic ideology of science demands.

You are an unusual person if you haven't been thoroughly indoctrinated into More...

Our cultures are responsible for art, music, religion and even self-sacrifice: are they?  Our brain's wiring determines who we are: does it?  We will understand consciousness by mapping all the connections of the 100 billion nerve cells: will we?  Books and projects of this sort are the current rage.

Between biologists of the one sort trapped inside the brain, and biologists of the other sort who think they understand social life, there is scarcely room for a thinking person.  Improving our societies is then impossible.  What a relief not to be responsible for our social ills! More...