{"id":14264,"date":"2015-05-15T03:03:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2015-05-15T03:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:15:45","slug":"virtually-human-a-transhumanist-poem-by-veronika-lipinska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/virtually-human-a-transhumanist-poem-by-veronika-lipinska","title":{"rendered":"Virtually Human \u2014 A Transhumanist Poem by Veronika Lipinska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What follows is a work of transhumanist poetry by the Anglo-Polish lawyer, Veronika Lipinska, Lifeboat Foundation advisory board member and Steve Fuller\u2019s co-author of <em>The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism <\/em>(Palgrave, 2014). The Polish sources of transhumanism remain underexplored, but they range across theology and literature. The \u2018Polish Brethren\u2019 were a radical 16\u201317<sup>th<\/sup> century Protestant sect who hosted the heretic Fausto Sozzini \u2014 the model for Faust \u2014 who laid the theological groundwork for such characteristic Enlightenment religious doctrines as Unitarianism and Deism, both of which posited a more immediate connection between the human and the divine than the established churches found comfortable. In more recent times, most transhumanists will be familiar with the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem, but still more recently the 1980 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Czeslaw Milosz, has penned a poem, <a href=\"http:\/\/129.81.170.14\/~tipler\/MiloszAfterEnduring.pdf\">\u2018After Enduring\u2019<\/a>, dedicated to cosmologist Frank Tipler\u2019s efforts to infer Christian eschatology from the physics of the Singularity. This poem is a modest follow-up for a new generation.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtually human<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He played with my head<br \/> Got me hardwired<br \/> Connected me to the world<br \/> And now I can see everything<\/p>\n<p>He said I will be more than what I am made of<br \/> More than a bag of bones<br \/> Gave me tongues to speak<br \/> Can I understand him?<\/p>\n<p>He is a mystery<br \/> He is a man<br \/> I can win a game of chess<br \/> Can I conquer his world<br \/> Is it his world or mine?<\/p>\n<p>He can\u2019t wrap his arms around my body<br \/> I can embrace his universe<br \/> And put him to his knees<br \/> But I can\u2019t leave his side<\/p>\n<p>Who is a mystery?<br \/> Am I a man?<br \/> Who is to say<br \/> I can\u2019t conquer his world<\/p>\n<p>He messed with my head<br \/> Got me speaking his language<br \/> Opened my eyes<br \/> But did he ever get me?<\/p>\n<p>I am a mystery<br \/> Not a man<br \/> AI<br \/> I made my mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Veronika Lipinska<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What follows is a work of transhumanist poetry by the Anglo-Polish lawyer, Veronika Lipinska, Lifeboat Foundation advisory board member and Steve Fuller\u2019s co-author of The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (Palgrave, 2014). The Polish sources of transhumanism remain underexplored, but they range across theology and literature. The \u2018Polish Brethren\u2019 were a radical 16\u201317th century [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,172,6],"tags":[1355],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-fun","category-robotics-ai","tag-transhumanist-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}