Greenflame

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Category: Transhumanism

  • IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity

    For an interesting range of articles, video clips and other things relating to the speculative concept of the technological singularity see IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity. Related links: Greenflame · Three Major Singularity Schools Greenflame · Pondering the Singularity (Again) Greenflame · Transhumanism

  • Metanexus Global Spiral – Special Issue on Transhumanism

    Metanexus’ eMagazine/eJournal – Global Spiral – has a special issue this month on transhumanism edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson from Arizona State University. See Global Spiral, June 2008 (Volume 9, Issue 3) – Special Issue on Transhumanism Articles include: Engaging Transhumanism: The Meaning of Being Human :: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson :: Global Spiral Of Which Human Are…

  • Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology blog

    In one of those “around the houses” moments I rediscovered the Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology blog attached to Arizona State University’s Templeton Research Lectures – Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, Technology project. Something to keep track of over the next few months. Hat tip to a BetterHumans.com :…

  • Transhuman – The comic mini-series

    Picked up the first issue of Transhuman from Image Comics yesterday. It’s a four-part mini-series in a documentary format set in the not to distant future and deals with the initial commercial forays into commercialising technologies to produce ‘off-the-shelf’ human self-modification of a transhumanist nature. I thought the first issue was quite good, and offered…

  • WCC on Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright, and Christian Churches

    Love to share is a downloadable resource from the World Council of Churches that aims to give some direction and guidelines for churches when considering intellectual property rights and copyright and looking at alternatives to the current situation. At some point I’d like to have some students theologically investigate these ideas so I’ll be downloading…

  • Martin Rees on the ‘posthuman’ future

    The website Edge: The Third Culture recently asked the question “WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?” to a range of commentators. Martin Rees (President, The Royal Society; Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics; Master, Trinity College, University of Cambridge) responded with interesting short piece – We Should Take the ‘Posthuman’ Era Seriously. You can also…

  • Death, bioethics and transhumanism

    I can’t remember whether I’ve posted these links before (a quick search of the blog says not), but in a week’s time I’ll just back from Dunedin having attended the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: Wellbeing and Technology so it seemed apt to note them. There’s a session on transhumanism on the last day of the…

  • On Singularity

    A new user-driven blog relating to transhumanist ideas, and in particular, the technological singularity. See On Singularity:

  • Interesting article on leaving the H+ community

    Justice De Thezier, one of the most frequent contributors to the transhumanist blog Cyborg Democracy (which tends towards the ‘left’ of the H+ spectrum), wrote a posting a few weeks back about how he’s decided to abandon the transhumanist label (and also membership in the WTA). It makes for interesting reading (and has some parallels…

  • People Power for the Third Millennium: Technology, Democracy and Human Rights Symposia

    The “People Power for the Third Millennium: Technology, Democracy and Human Rights” symposia from The Centre for Bioethics & Public Policy in the UK looks interesting, though being held in London means I’m hoping they’ll be something published out of them for a wider audience. The first symposium, “Robots & Rights: Will artificial intelligence change…