Current events
From Order of Cosmic Engineers
Amara Graps’ Baby Shower in Second Life, December 14
Extropia DaSilva’s 2008 Thinkers Lecture on GOOGLE AND THE RED QUEEN - Extropia DaSilva gave her 2008 Thinkers Lecture on GOOGLE AND THE RED QUEEN yesterday December 7 in Second Life at the Cosmic Engineers meeting lounge. The full chat log is here (Chat Logs). The conclusion: ”We cannot talk about the evolution of technology without considering the evolution of ourselves. The two are co-dependent. Perhaps the prospect of Google as an AI that contains your entire mind within itself is not what is dizzying about this future, as seen from our lowly perspective. Rather, it is what new forms of consciousness may evolve, as a result of adaptation to the awakened Digital Gaia.”
Cosmic Engineers meetings in Second Life are now IRC-enabled. The #cosmeng IRC channel is linked to the chat area in Second Life by a Second Life - IRC gateway developed by David aka Lucifer. The weekly meeting of October 26 (see Chat Logs/2008-10-26) was the first IRC-enabled meeting with the participation of people not in SL.
Next Cosmic Engineers meeting in Second Life: Discussion of CTRL-ALT-R: REBAKE YOUR REALITY - with Extropia DaSilva: A mind boggling ride in the mindscape of wild ideas about the fabric of our reality, fueled by analogies with VR worlds and our best theories of fundamental physics. We are beginning to build synthetic worlds, of which Second Life is only one of the first examples. Soon our synthetic worlds will be sensorially indistinguishable from physical reality, and populated by intelligent beings - artificial intelligences and uploaded copies of ourselves. What does this tell us about the ultimate nature of our reality? Sunday October 12 at 10am PST/SLT (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm Continental EU). MORE: Extropia speaks to Cosmic Engineers in Extropia - See also my CA Resurrection movie and article with excerpts from writings of Moravec, who was probably the first thinker to articulate the reality-as-simulation theory and its "resurrection-by-AI" part in its modern formulation.
Cosmic Engineers will meet regularly in Second Life on Sundays at 10am PST/SLT (1pm EST, 6pm UK, 7pm Continental EU). The Cosmic Engineers Second Life meeting point is on the Extropia Core sim - you can use this SLURL to teleport. Depending on those present, some Sunday meetings will be informal social or organizational chats, and others will be mainly dedicated to communicating our cosmic transhumanist vision to visitors. On occasions the Sunday meeting will morph into a seminar with one or more keynote speaker(s) and be announced in Current events on the Cosmic Engineers website.
On July 20, 2008, Philippe Van Nedervelde, Executive Director of the European Foresight Institute and one of the founding members of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, gave a presentation on Awaken The Universe -- Introducing the Order of Cosmic Engineers, at the 4th Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology. The workshop took place at the Terasem Amphitheater in Second Life and explored what geoethical management, if any, is appropriate for the nanotechnology necessary for cryonic revival and embodiment of downloaded cyber-consciousness. Click here for detailed information, full text, PPT and video coverage.
Image: Sculpture "Converging Aspirations" by Philippe Van Nedervelde on Terasem island, Second Life. Larger Version.
The Order of Cosmic Engineers and the Cosmic Engineers Guild were launched at the Silvermoon Meeting in World of Warcraft on June 14, 2008. Read the Prospectus of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, collaboratively authored by the Order's founding members.
The foundation of the Order of Cosmic Engineers was announced at The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future conference in Second Life on June 5, 2008. There will be a launch event in World of Warcraft on June 14, 2008, at noon EST, hosted by Bainbridge’s WoW Science Guild. The Prospectus of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, collaboratively authored by the Order’s founding members, and other parts of this website, will be online on June 15, 2008.
See Bainbridge’s convergentsystems wiki for information on the Order’s launch at the Silvermoon Meeting, Saturday, June 14 noon server time. Please see the Earthen Ring US page for information on how to set up your WoW character to attend the event. In summary: you must choose the the North American server, Earthen Ring US, and your character must belong to the Horde. Europeans see here.
In the picture above Futura, avatar of William Sims Bainbridge, and Eschatoon, avatar of Giulio Prisco, in Silvermoon City imemdiately after the formation of the Cosmic Engineers Guild in WoW.
