The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and Transcendence in an Enhanced Future
Exploring the compatibility of the transhumanist project with the major world faiths.
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Toward a Transhumanist Theology
I want to argue that it is possible to look at transhumanism as a truly religious endeavor.
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Our Impending Cyborg Future: A Pause for Reflection
Much of the attention garnered by transhumanism revolves around its most expansive hopes for the technological enhancement of human life, and no such hope is loftier than immortality.
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H-: Engaging Transhumanism: A Critical Historical Perspective
Technology is transforming human life at a faster pace than ever before. The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, information and communication technology, and applied cognate science poses a new situation in which the human has become a design project. The new technologies allow for new kinds of cognitive tools that combine artificial intelligence with interface…
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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+: 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+: 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?