{"id":1538,"date":"2009-12-13T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/initiation-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:41","slug":"initiation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/initiation-ceremony.php","title":{"rendered":"Initiation ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2008\/03\/initiation-cere.html\">Initiation Ceremony<\/a><\/p><p><span><\/span><\/p><blockquote><p><span>\"Yes, I want to know,\" said Brennan.<\/span><br><span>\"Know <\/span><em>what,<\/em><span> exactly?\" whispered the figure.<\/span><br><span>Brennan's face scrunched up in concentration, trying to visualize the game to its end, and hoping he hadn't blown it already; until finally he fell back on the first and last resort, which is the truth:<\/span><br><span>\"<\/span><span>It doesn't matter<\/span><span>,\" said Brennan, \"<\/span><span>the answer is still yes<\/span><span>.\"<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><p>A little meditation on intellectual honesty: whatever is true is true, and I want to know the truth no matter how unpleasant it seems to my primate brain.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7b36_7813164664144593334-7760934303251521831?l=transhumangoodness.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initiation Ceremony\"Yes, I want to know,\" said Brennan.\"Know what, exactly?\" whispered the figure.Brennan's face scrunched up in concentration, trying to visualize the game to its end, and hoping he hadn't blown it already; until finally he fell back on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/initiation-ceremony.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}