Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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It’s 50 years since the concept of the cyborg was introduced by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. To commemorate this, Tim Maly has solicited a bunch of brief essays inspired by the theme of the cyborg. See 50 Posts About Cyborgs. Hat tip to Kevin Kelly at The Technium: We, the Domesticated Cyborg.
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When I finished the PhD this was the kind of position that I was looking for. Wasn’t really anything going then, but this might be of interest for others looking for a science and religion postdoc position. Research Associate British Council – ‘Belief in Dialogue Project’ Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Research Associate –…
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A interesting short article by Rachel Wagner at Ithaca College. See SBL Forum: XBox Apocalypse: Video Games and Revelatory Literature Will add it to the reading list for the Bible and Popular Culture course.
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Nick Bostrom’s question – are we living in a simulation? – gets another airing over here: Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil Bostrom’s original article “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” is over here: http://www.nickbostrom.com/
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Hat tip to New Life From Old for this link through to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s resources for schools and young people, including Stem cells – science and ethics – BBSRC. The other week I was looking for this sort of thing for a homework project one of my children was doing…
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It’s been a while since I looked at anything related to cryonics, having been more preoccupied lately with things related to religion, popular culture and/or new media, so I was interested to see this article on cryonics in the NY Times. Discussion about cryonics has tended to get subsumed in the hype about super-longevity research…
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IEEE Spectrum has a new chart up of different robots the mimic human babies and children in various ways (on capabilities vs. appearance axes). See IEEE Spectrum: Invasion of the Robot Babies (Infographic) for that and some other interesting links on humanoid robotics. Of course, if you have time and access to the DVD, a…
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My browser has been collecting cyborg-related links over the last few weeks – so I’m getting them all out of the bookmarks here. No time like the present to discuss cyborg rights Everything You Need To Know About Movie/TV Cyborgs In One Giant Chart Jamais Cascio on Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me James Hughes on…
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From the io9 posthuman newsfeed is a brief article looking a this form of muscle/nerve prosthetic. I’m constantly amazed by this kind of thing, and can’t imagine what it will look like in 10-15 years time. See Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell – Posthumanity – io9
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This is a nice list. I’ve read a number of these (and there are some obvious ones missing) but this will give me some more options when I head to the library looking for something like this to read on the train. See The Essential Posthuman Science Fiction Reading List – Posthumanity – io9 As…