Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Transhumanism
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This happened a while back but the site still has audio, presentations and papers for download. See TransVision 2004 : Faith, Transhumanism and Hope Symposium.
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One of the introductory points I make in my research is that the term “transhumanism” is now moving into usage by mainstream media and no longer just being used by the self-identified transhumanist community. The technologies being linked to it have been discussed in the public arena but the term is now in general use.…
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Simon Smith at BetterHumans.com wonders if the term transhumanism is now past its best before date because he thinks the ideals it proposes have now moved into the mainstream consciousness. So it’s not a question of whether to enhance human beings using technology but more a question of when to do it. See Betterhumans.com: Is…
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A few articles out recently that pick up on the potential of nanotechnology for the purposes of human therapy and enhancement. Popular Mechanics has an article Redefining The Human: The Upgradable You which covers a range of technological developments relating to nanotechnology among other things. The forever techno-optimistic Ray Kurzweil has an article in the…
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Couple of things of interest this week. Firstly, Four Door Films have released the rough cut of their 90 minute documentary file “Building Gods” on Google Video. (See Building Gods Rough Cut – Google Video). Haven’t looked at it beyond the first few minutes but it looks like an interesting survey of perspectives on transhumanism.…
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ASU picked up a half-million dollar grant from the Metanexus Institute to look at the “the challenges posed to humanity by new advances in the life sciences, technology, and the neurosciences” in a new project “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology”. The project is based at the Center for the Study of…
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MSNBC run an article that manages to capture a number of transhumanist themes at Human evolution at the crossroads – Future of Evolution. The article is pretty fluffy, picking up on the sensationalist-type things together with a little Flash animation that shows their different possible predictions for humanity. Probably of more interest for the fact…
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In what might be the first piece of legislation to explicitly mention transhumanism some seek to alter the Missouri constitution to prohibit it. See CybDem: Missouri to vote on constitutional ban on transhumanism which contains links through to the proponents of the changes.
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Two different perspectives on human enhancement at: BetterHumans.com : George : What would Jesus say about human enhancement? and The Pursuit of Enhancement – Christianity Today Magazine.
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The latest issue of Dialag, a Lutheran theological journal, has a collection of articles on technology and the human being in it’s latest issue. And that issue is now their current sample issue – it wasn’t a week or two back when I was getting ready to interloan it – with PDFs of the articles…