A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age

The term Cosmism was introduced by Tsiolokovsky and other Russian Cosmists around 1900. Goertzel's "Cosmist Manifesto" gives it new life and a new twist for the 21st century. Cosmism, as Goertzel presents it, is a practical philosophy for the posthuman era. Rooted in Western and Eastern philosophy as well as modern technology and science, it is a way of understanding ourselves and our universe that makes sense now, and will keep on making sense as advanced technology exerts its transformative impact as the future unfolds. Among the many topics considered are AI, nanotechnology, uploading, immortality, psychedelics, meditation, future social structures, psi phenomena, alien and cetacean intelligence and the Singularity. The Cosmist perspective is shown to make plain old common sense of even the wildest future possibilities.

• The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity
• Russian Cosmism (The MIT Press)
• Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
• The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind
• AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence
• A Secret Love of Chaos
• The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
• Between Ape and Artilect: Conversations with Pioneers of Artificial General Intelligence and Other Transformative Technologies
• The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software