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Neuroscientific Research on the Self: A Case for Panentheism?
Introduction Why is it important to explain the self in an interdisciplinary manner? Let me answer that question by...
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Some Historical Reflections on the Relationship Between Religion and Science
Introduction In the lectures I delivered as the 2007/8 senior lecturer for the Metanexus Institute I covered a wide...
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H-: Wrestling with Transhumanism
The transhumanist community is one that is fervently involved in trying to figure out where technogenesis is headed in...
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H-: Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition
Cybernetics calls to mind a series of familiar images that turn out on closer inspection to be highly doubtful.
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H-: Brains, Selves and Spirituality in the History of Cybernetics
Cybernetic immortality is the idea that we can achieve a sort of immortality by downloading (or uploading) our consciousness...
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H-: Transhumanism and the Posthuman Future: Will Technological Progress Get Us There?
Transhumanists assume that progress is inherent in nature and culture. The direction is set; the task of transhumanist technology...
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H-: Of Which Human Are We Post?
The issues of the human, the posthuman and the transhuman revolve around distinctive narratives, and these are often highly...
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An Excerpt from The Myth of Religious Neutrality
It is by the theories of philosophy and the sciences that we probe the deeper nature of, and construct...
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A re-consideration of Ren� Descartes’ Cogito, ergo sum through a synthesis of the ideas of Buddhism, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins and Andrew Newberg.
“But how can I, an amateur, be expected to settle a question which the philosophers have not yet ceased...
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The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman Initiation
According to the thinking of many societies, spiritual forces outside of ourselves exist. In our illnesses and breaks from...
