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Beyond Intelligent Design
In this lecture, William Grassie proposes that we focus science education more on what happened when than on how...
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Process Ecology in Process
A Review of Robert Ulanowicz’s Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin (Templeton Foundation Press, 2009). Reading Robert Ulanowicz’s book...
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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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A New Philosophical Guide for the Sciences: Ontology without Reduction
Explicit or not, ontologies play a decisive role in the interpretation of any scientific theory.
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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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H+: Trite Truths About Technology: A Reply to Ted Peters
Ted Peters and others have reminded us of some trite truths about technology, and that the reminder may serve...
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H+: Bringing Arts/Sciences and Design Into the Discussion of Transhumanism
The central issue now is the actuality of altering the human form is practicable, duplicating the mind is probable,...
