Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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Slogging through understanding, appropriating and then adapting Philip Hefner’s metaphor as human beings as created co-creators into something of my own to apply to my research field (Christian anthropology, the imago Dei and emergent digital and transhuman technology). Figured I’d whack a summary out here so then when people ask me what I’m referring to…
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The Bioethics Council (Toi te Taiao) is currently looking for submissions and dialogue on the issue of xenotransplantation. From their web site, Xenotransplantation – animal-to-human transplantsIn recent years a new type of technology has hit the headlines – xenotransplantation. In human medicine, xenotransplantation means using living non-human animal cells, tissues or organs to treat humans.…
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Guest lecturer next Monday for Gospel in a Post-Christian Society at BCNZ Henderson on “Gospel and Technoculture”. Over the past few years I’ve done similar lectures and this year I’ve decided to emphasize the themes of Christian hope and spirituality within Western technoculture and focus less upon science and religion interplay. Normal mix of slides,…
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The Buzz Report: Enter the robots – CNET.com is a brief survey of robots seen at the International Expo in Japan.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is a web site that brings together information and links related to things like “transhumanism”, technological augmentation of human beings and technological approaches to longevity and immortality. By promoting and publicizing the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological advance, we seek to contribute…
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Reading this paper this morning and this quote stuck out, Humanity created in God’s image-and the church as the renewed imago Dei-is called and empowered to be God’s multi-sided prism in the world, reflecting and refracting the Creator’s brilliant light into a rainbow of cultural activity and socio-political patterns that scintillates with the glory of…
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Article about Matt Nagle (25) who is a patient in a trial that seeks to prove brain-computer interfaces can return function to people paralyzed by injury or disease. Basically the device in the brain identifies the brain activity associated with moving limbs and responds electronically effecting a response in the world. See Wired 13.03: Mind…
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Neural Interfaces Cyberkinetics, a Massachusetts company, has launched the first human trials of their new BrainGate neural interface. This won’t be for console cowboys trying to make their big cyberspace break, but for the physically disabled needing communication and activity. Therapy, Enhancement and the Augmented Society This is also another step forward in the ongoing…
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The colloquium was great. Some really interesting people & papers. Will post more later. Need to clear the head cold I came down with over the weekend first. Tim took the picture below at lunch (From left-to-right: Peter, Ian, Paul, me and Ann).
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Just had an excellent late breakfast and coffee with Phil, a fellow PhD student in the School of Theology. Always good to catch up with someone else who’s walking a similar path to yourself. Good food, good drink and good conversation. A nice way to start the day and to try out a new café…