Technosecularism?
by rebecca ~ July 22nd, 2005. Filed under: New Media Musings.What are the implications of technosecularism?
On our module 9 map, the following terms are listed
under Technosecularism: Agnosticism, Technotheism,
Rationalism, Theosophy, Cybernetics & Machine
Consciousness. Does this suggest they are borne from the
same stream of thought? I couldn’t figure that out as
some seemed oppositional: such as the terms Rationalism
and Theosophy….I couldn’t find a technosecular
definition, but I haven’t finished with all the links
yet, so…my answers are not etched in stone…
Secularism is a belief system that is not religious,
sacred or spiritual (Concise Oxford)…so with that,
I’ll attempt to define technosecularism for myself as a
belief that our technologies can provide us with enough
means to explain natural phenomena and enough means to
lead us to experience life directly and deeply…
In such a definition, to me anyway, there is a hole
missing in the center (interestingly what Varela claims
is in the center of the autopoeitic system, too). That
missing center would be, again for me, the unexplainable
mysteries of existence…technosecularism avoids that
paradox by focusing on the trappings and working of
current and potential technologies, but it is not
concerned with complex, spiritual or mystic unknowns.