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Personally, I think continuation along the present route of cybernetics and prostheses (better integration between computers and brains), along with better and better smart drugs, are the answer. I tend to agree that the biology probably has a limit, and the best we can do is enhance (e.g...

lol, I get you, but by 1) I was thinking more of the serious political activist type. They're usually materialist and don't go for mystical stuff. I don't think you'll find 3) people going on jihad, they just write the kinds of books you find on the New Age or comparative religion shelf, and...

Not all that many. But three main clusters of reasons, I think (could also be combinations, though 1) and 3) are somewhat incompatible) for those who do: 1) contrarian, former Left-wing-leaning, wants to stick it to the West; 2) prudish, sick of materialism, likes the ethos and rules; or...

Thanks minimalist, that's the one I was thinking of. So essentially this means that it would be a mistake to try and find any kind of unified doctrine shared by all the religious texts, that it's more likely they're a grab-bag of Jewish texts that were thought important enough to preserve, from...

Isn't there some guy who thinks that the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't the library of a particular sect (as has been the received popular opinion for some time), but rather a repository where books were left for safekeeping by a variety of different types of people fleeing some sort of imminent...