EUDAEMONISTS

Eudaemonists Mailing list Founder - Author Profile

For those who do not know me well, allow me to introduce myself. I am a 27 year old living in North Eastern Connecticut. As you gather from my posts on the extropy list, my interests are in Science, physics, politics, history, ethics, philosophy, technology, motorcycles... I am also interested in Computer animation, music, poetry, art, and film... As a Eudaemonist, I am interested in anyting that makes life enjoyable, everything is interesting.

Some intellectual inspirations of mine have been Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Isaac Asimov, Robert Forward, Michael Fumento, Paul Davies, Kip Thorne, Michael Shermer, James Randi, Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins, Immanual Kant, John Stossel, Virginia Postrel... Among many others.

please see my home page http://www.matus1976.com for more of my work / interests.

Although I am reluctant to call myself part of any 'isms' some isms that I share a majority of general descriptions with are humanism, skepticism, libertarianism (neo), atheism, I would have previously said 'Extropianism' but I'm not sure about that one anymore, given the behavior of official representations of that particular 'ism', and, of course, Eudaemonism!

Although I am most Vocal on the extropy of matters of politics, my deepest interests lie in Physics and Inventing. I am currently working for the Lifeboat Foundation (www.lifeboat.com) as their lead Animator, Modeler. I am designing and constructing in 3D a plausible self sustaining space colony, some of the images are currently available on their site. I am also in the process of building a recumbent motorcycle, and plan to market and manufacture small numbers of the vehicle.

Other than that, I cant think of anything more to say about myself. If you'd like, please present a similar introduction of yourself. I hope everyone finds the list valuable and intellectually stimulating. I hope that this list will be friendly toward productive endeavors as well, as I will surely toss out some ideas and ask a lot of questions pertaining to things I am working on.

If you are joining the mailing list, please feel free to send similiar profiles about yourself out as an introduction.

Enjoy,

Michael Dickey