Well, you should remember that all Ne users do also have Si, which is often cast across the pond in the MBTI discourse as the "conservative" function. That's the struggle Ne/Si users face: the push and pull between new possibilities and the way things have been done in the past. Just like Ni/Se users face the push and pull between the deeply personal vision and what can actually be made manifest in reality.
As for me, I have to pull an Alpha NT here and go "What is your definition of transhumanism?" I think few would hesitate to support prosthetic or even cybernetic limbs for amputees, but a world of designer babies where everyone is crafted to be Stepford Wives perfect might raise some dissenting voices...I know I'm pulling a Godwin's law, but Hit-ler was a transhumanist by some standards. He wanted to use eugenics to create a race of superhumans, no?
Tampering with the genetic code or transplanting the human mind into a electronic vehicle is not something I consider doing lightly. Man is infected with a sort of hubris. He thinks that he can easily outsmart nature, but nature's systems of checks and balances often throw his "progress" right back in his face (The pill allowed for free love, then the AIDS crisis, man conquered the space vacuum, then Apollo 13, cities which run on oil are utopias which provide refuge from nature...which are quickly running out of resources and are destroying the ozone which keeps us all alive...and on and on and on. I agree with Agent Smith, human beings are a disease. As Joe Rogan astutely pointed out, if you look at human colonies from an airplane, they look like bacterial infections. The superorganism we call the earth should have an inclination to destroy a species which has outstripped its natural predators and is grossly overpopulating). So yeah, basically, I'm not sure that I would trust a handful of scientists to be able to create a better machine than the one nature has been tinkering with for millions of years. If you somehow managed to transplant my brainwaves or whatever into a computer, I know one repercussion is that I'd never be able to go near magnets again, for fear of them accidentally wiping me out.That's not to say I would begrudge them for trying. Fuck nature, she's a bitch. Hell yes we should at least make a sporting go of trying to subjugate her.
From my viewpoint, I think the current global hegemony will collapse. (Even if it's a "soft" collapse like what happened to the British Empire.) Civilizations seem to have an apoptosis just like germs and men. Not even Rome lived forever. After that, I'm not sure where will be technologically, but with fundamental Islam conquering the globe, and with ego effacing mandated by the still traditionally Confucian influenced emerging superpower China, it may well be another Dark Ages. To use some of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's terms, I think the TV, the automobile, and the A/C are robust enough to stick around, but maybe not things so ornate and fragile as the smartphone and the personal laptop. To be honest, I'm hedging my bets that we will destroy the planet from either overpopulation, atmosphere destruction or nuclear fallout before we get android bodies or escape to the stars...but this is all just speculation, of course.
In the same breath as all these doubts, though , you'll hardly meet a more dyed-in-the-wool lover of the free market then me. So yeah, if the people want transhuman mods, whatever they may be, I say let 'em have it. And if the Singularity comes in my lifetime, and it's between that and dying, I'll choose the computer download in a heartbeat. And I also write this in the middle of a weightlifting cycle on quote unquote designer steroids, partially because I felt I got dealt a shit genetic hand as an ectomorph with wrists so thin I can wrap my middle finger and my thumb around them...so, in some sense, since I'm exploiting pharmaceutical chemistry and all, you might call me a "transhuman" already...
Anyways, those are my thoughts on the affair.
POSTSCRIPT: Why are ILIs the exception? That's out of left field...wouldn't LIEs be outliers too, then, with only slightly altered function order? And this totally sets aside the quagmire you've gotten us in by suggesting not even functional layouts, mind, but Keirsey's clubs as determining ideological leanings...I mean, I'm totally on board with the Celebritytypes' reasoning of Ben Stein, an anti-evolution advocate, as being an INTP/LII, based on the way in which he creates arguments...but I digress...
For your reading pleasure: http://www.celebritytypes.com/blog/2...stein-is-intp/



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