Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Transhumanism
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Having returned from holiday with more books (see Greenflame: Back from holiday (with books)) we all went out a few days back to one of the local secondhand bookshops with a box of books to exchange. A successful trip with all 6 of us finding something amongst the volumes. To my delight I picked up…
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Last night I was listening to the podcast Changesurfer Radio: The Future of Virtual Reality and there was this really clever clip at the end of a transhumanist parody from the production The Filkado. Anyway, it’s a Gilbert and Sullivan knockoff available for download at I am the very model of a Singularitarian – Charlie…
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I’m off to pester the interloan people at the uni library. The uni has a subscription to the journal but only electronically and there’s a 12 month embargo on electronic copy. (So much for the digital technology making it easier for people). Anyway here’s the link to the contents page: Blackwell Synergy: Dialog, Vol 44,…
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Looking to get some insight into what transhumanism is? Have a look at JET 14(1) – April 2005 – Bostrom – A History of Transhumanist Thought. Nick Bostrom sketches an overview of transhumanism (from the point of view of a transhumanist) in a fairly easy to read paper. The final section is interesting too with…
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The special issue of the Journal of Evolution and Technology focusing on religion and transhumanism is now online. An interesting collection of papers from various perspectives (e.g. sociological, theological and historical). The introduction by Mark Walker and Heidi Campbell makes for interesting reading as they track some of the previous history of interaction between transhumanism…
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Saw that Oxford University has just set up the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute headed by transhumanist Nick Bostrom. The Future of Humanity Institute was founded on 1 June 2005. FHI is part of the new James Martin School for the 21st Century at Oxford University. Dr. Nick Bostrom has been appointed as its director.…
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A brief review from a while back of James Hughes’ book Citizen Cyborg. The copy I was reading has been recalled this week by the university library before I finished it but I agree with the reviewer that it’s a very readable book and takes a different tack from the typical libertarian transhumanist approach. In…
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Democratic transhumanist James Hughes interviews Lutheran theologian Ted Peters (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary & Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) about theology, genetics and humans as created co-creators. Podcast at : Changesurfer Radio: Co-Creator Theology (2005-02-12).
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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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Just working through Elaine Graham’s paper Bioethics after Posthumanism: Natural Law, Communicative Action and the Problem of Self-Design for a second time. Some good, thought provoking material there. For example, Socio-economic inequalities may thus represent as profound a threat to human dignity as biotechnologies. I think this gets forgotten in all the heated discussions. That…