Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Transhumanism
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I love anthologies of science fiction short stories – a chance to read new stories by familiar authors, as well as the opportunity to find out about new authors to follow up at the library. Just reading "Year’s Best SF 11" by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer which was published back in 2006, and…
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Ebru TV have a couple of interesting episodes online as part of their Matter and Beyond series. See Ebru.TV :: Science and Religion Ebru.TV :: Exploring Transhumanism Hat tip to: http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2009/02/matter-and-beyond-explores.html
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Back in June (2008) I pointed out that Metanexus’ Global Spiral publication had a special issue on transhumanism – see Greenflame ยท Metanexus Global Spiral – Special Issue on Transhumanism. Apparently this generated some pointed comment from the transhumanist community. Sentient Developments: Guest Blogger: Russell Blackford: How to avoid a spiral of nonsense; or, the…
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Interview: Jason Silva on How Science Will Make You Live Forever looks at scientific ‘salvation’ stories. Besides, by labeling death a problem, it shifts our complacent attitude about death and turns it into an engineering problem, one that we can solve, much as we have solved impossible problems in the past. The film referred to…
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An article looking at the relationship between transhumanism and religion from the side of a transhumanist (and also an MP3 of the paper being delivered). See Sentient Developments: James Hughes: Transhumanism and Religion. Related links: Religion and Transhumanism Special Issue (Volume 14 Issue 2) Program Information – Changesurfer Radio: Co-Creator Theology|A-Infos Radio Project
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Interesting news article looking at Matrine Rothlatt’s perspective on digital immortality. See Virtual immortality — baltimoresun.com Terasemfaith.org, the Internet home base for Terasem Movement Transreligion Inc., describes Rothblatt’s religion as one that believes “God emerges as technology becomes increasingly omnipresent, omniscient, omnificient and omnipotent,” and that “technology will soon enable joyful immortality.” Related links –…
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I really enjoyed the AAR session “Religion and Transhumanism” I was presenting at. They were four of us presenting (see below) and the three other presentations were really good. I especially appreciated Jennifer’s material critiquing biases relating to gender and disability in transhumanist literature. (You can see the full blurbs for the talks here –…
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Interesting post by Kevin Kelly on why he thinks that the transhumanist emphasis on intelligence as the source of technological ‘salvation’ is somewhat misplaced. See Thinkism.
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In July Metanexus had their annual conference on the theme of Subject, Self, and Soul: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood. The papers for these are now available and I’m particularly looking forward to reading Technology and Eschatology: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on the Transformation of Human Nature by Ronald Cole-Turner.
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After listening to Steve’s presentation on River as a Christ-figure in the movie Serenity, I felt inspired to walk up to Heroes for Sale and grab the last two parts of the latest Serenity mini-series “Better Days” from Dark Horse comics. Suffice to say I was disappointed. The story seemed to drag, some of the…