H+: From Mind Loading to Mind Cloning: Gene to Meme to Beme: A Perspective on the Nature of Humanity
Cybernetics may very well offer a means for expanding the human being.
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H+: True Transhumanism
The transhumans or posthumans we may become may quite possibly share our current DNA, but technologies and cultural practices are likely to gradually render our chromosomes almost vestigial components of our individual and species identity.
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H+: Conceptualizing Future Identities
In narratives of human existence, technology often plays a dual role as a catalyst of the human subject’s actions towards a fulfilling existence, or as an enemy of social cohesion and the preservation of culture.
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H+: SENS Declaration, Endorsed by 15 Prestigious Biomedical Experts
Aging is inarguably the most prevalent medically relevant phenomenon in the modern world and the primary ultimate target of biomedical research.
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Reproductive Choices: The Promising Landscape of Assisted Reproductive Technology
In early June 2005, upon opening my postbox for my Frascati, Italy apartment, a glossy, elegantly-designed brochure fell to the floor, revealing pink pictures of mothers and babies and sterile pictures of test-tubes. The brochure was a suspiciously-crafted campaign piece from the Committee of Science and Life, urging me not to vote in the upcoming…
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H+: Transhumanism: Threat or Menace? A Response to Andrew Pickering
By accident or design, transhumanism has often been depicted as a villain without redeeming qualities. Rather than considering transhumanism on its own terms, we are often given a false choice: threat or menace?
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Introduction to “H+: Transhumanism Answers Its Critics”
In The Global Spiral’s 2008 Special Issue on Transhumanism1, Guest Editor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and five other authors, Ted Peters, Katherine Hayles, Don Ihde, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Andrew Pickering, provocatively relay their concerns about transhumanism to expectant ears. This responsive second Special Issue on Transhumanism is an opportunity for ten transhumanist authors to evaluate the criticisms…
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Thermodynamic Horizon
Artist’s Statement I wish to bridge the perceived gap between logical, materialistic analysis and intuitive, mystical experience. My directive as an artist is to engage and communicate the meaning that lies before our eyes, and yet we do not see. I attempt to point to the ‘numinous’, which is characterized by the quintessential qualities of…
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Christianity and Europe: Tony Blair’s View at Yale University – Part II
Continued from Christianity and Europe: Tony Blair’s View at Yale University – Part I What all this activity amounts to is an initial giving voice to a belief that faith can and in fact should have a role in public decisions. This, in a country mind you, and in a culture—modern Western culture—which keeps religion…
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Postmodernism and Anti-Science Movements
It is not surprising that in our age anti-science movements are growing strong. These may be put under four broad categories which sometimes overlap. First there are the technology based anti-science movements. Here, the provocation is quite legitimate in many instances. Even with all the positive things that modern technology has brought to human societies—from…