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Anarcho-Transhumanism is the recognition that social liberty is inherently bound up with material liberty, and that freedom is ultimately a matter of expanding our capacity and opportunities to engage with the world around us. It is the realization that our resistance against those social forces that would subjugate and limit us is but part of a spectrum of efforts to expand human agency -- to facilitate our inquiry and creativity.
This means not just being free from the arbitrary limitations the bodies we were born with might impose, but free to shape the world around us and deepen the potential of our connections to one another through it.
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According to philosopher K. Apel, in an ideal communication society everything is agreed with everyone and any decision is the result of discourses of all participants of communication. Isocracy or otherwise direct democracy itself is when each participant of the society manages the whole system. This means equality not only before the law, but also in governance, equal degree of power for everyone. Isocracy extends the concept of liberal rights and their embodiment in the democratic form of government to include the right of ownership of oneself, and of natural resources as a source of public revenues. In terms of organisational structure, isocracy advocates a federalist network and a Mutuelist economic order. Neuro-means that certain previously described neuro-technologies are used to implement such governance. It is essentially a perfected form of networked direct democracy.
Neuro-isocracy - direct neural isocracy - is a socio-economic system and form of governance in which everyone has the same political rights based on the presence of brain implants that greatly enhance the ability to communicate and control technologies and processes, and self-governance occurs through neuro-communications. Each connected party retains its subjectivity and actually lives its own life. The free resources of each brain are continuously allocated to form a collective mind whose approximate brain power is equal to the sum of allocated mental abilities in addition to the self-optimising AI component. The brain is inherently limited in processing speed and data volume, but neural networks can scale almost infinitely. For full symbiosis, we need to get the brain to not only control the neural network, but also to accept it as part of itself. Citizens participate in political life through a network of neural interfaces, allowing them to propose initiatives, discuss important issues and manage the entire system in real time. Municipalities, as the basic units of self-government, co-operate with each other in a federation, co-ordinating on key issues. Each municipality manages its resources, economy and policies based on the collective decisions of its residents. Instead of centralisation, power is distributed through horizontal links between municipalities, ensuring mutual assistance and cooperation.
The political structure will be a fully decentralised federated system of municipalities (polities) governed through direct neural democracy. P2P (peer to peer) implies equality of participants in the whole system. The state as an archaic system of coercion and monopoly on violence, built on unequal division of power and dimorphism, will give way to stateless self-government. The economy, most likely organised through free cooperation with a common task in mind to create the common good, will be based on equal co-production with collegial management and equal ownership - common ownership of producers and consumers. Open co-operatives based on public resources, which differ from capitalism in their commitment to the creation and expansion of common goods for society, will be places of association and creation. Ownership of the means of production must be widespread among the majority of society. Man cannot be free if he does not have access to even basic goods. Lack of the essentials puts a person in a vulnerable position that others can use to exploit you or dominate you (i.e., violate your freedom). A truly free society should presuppose social security for everyone.
Because people are still independent ‘nodes’ in a network (albeit connected), they interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on these interactions. Social processes continue to exist and shape information flows. If the dynamic in which individuals exchange information and make decisions based on their own interests and preferences persists, then non-capitalist market exchange processes can also persist, becoming transparent as each participant in the network holds data on the needs and capabilities of all. The main criticism of any anti-libertarian theories is that large-scale production involving many people will always involve atomisation, specialisation, and a managerial class. Under ‘collective intelligence’, communication and politics will be freed from the problem of informational dimorphism of individuals, and a society freed from bureaucracy and total institutions will be truly caring towards its members. In this system, information dimorphism is eliminated, but the self, which from the point of view of cybernetics is a processor of information, working on input-output, is preserved, and thus the social dynamics that forms information and determines subsequent economic processes is preserved.
i believe that the ideal society can only be achieved by ending agriculture and that the best way to do this is by becoming autotrophs. we can only have a truly horizontal society when we no longer have to compete for food.
Currently, most of us know that overpopulation isn’t really an issue, because of the demographic transition and how developed countries have an equal birth or death rate. However, if people get the ability to be immortal through anti-aging technology, all of a sudden the population is going to keep on increasing, and we know that earth does not have an infinite carrying capacity.
I mean, most major civilizations so far have contributed to hierarchical systems, but I would love to see some antrans thoughts on this!
Firstly, yes if you have an aversion to anime - I understand. Problematic, bad takes can abound in the medium. However, this one is something I suggest watching for the technological creativity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den-noh_Coil <- NOTE: Contains spoilers, but if you don't plan to watch then go for it.
The way it dives right into an Augmented Reality world and how all of that is executed and protrayed, is very interesting, and I think anarchotranshumanist-minded folk could gain a lot to think about regarding this.I'm sure if you've already imagined great feats of Augmented Reality and its potential, then you'll see all kind of ideas you may have had, yourself. This one is definitely very "playful" about it, yet also serious.
I thought this idea on Twitter that mirrors something I found on Wikipedia which is the belief in a posthuman God, that we should create beings that are so beyond human beings that they seem to be in possession of divine qualities. To be honest, I don't fully know what constitutes divinity in the first place, but the idea of being able to alter reality more easily and with fewer steps to create the kind of world we want to experience and more easily solve problems seems like a solid idea to me.
What do you think?
To anyone reading this, please try your best to either find the aliens or activate the robots (AI) because the primitive humans will always choose totalitarianism over liberty.
Has anyone ever met another anarchist transhumanist in the world? Or even flying the blue black at a protest?