Beyond Intelligent Design
In this lecture, William Grassie proposes that we focus science education more on what happened when than on how and why evolution occurs.
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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 – A Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin – is a humbling experience. The breadth and depth of the disciplines that he brings to bear on these grand intellectual problems are impressive. His proses are powerful…
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A Blueprint for a Non-Reductionist Theory of Reality
There can be no discursive justification for the belief that any particular kind of entities can be independent of all other kinds.
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Technology and Eschatology
Comparing two views of human transformation: a religious view, specifically Christian, and the view associated with the movement called transhumanism and based in new and emerging technologies.
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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 into a computer.
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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 is to increase the speed forward.
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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 slippery.
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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 explanations of, all that we experience. No such theory can fail to be regulated and guided by some religious belief or other.
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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 as a reality check for transhumanists