As the Renaissance period emerged in Europe, men felt more open about seeking things that had hitherto been closed to most Christians under the Catholic Church. But the genie as we say, had been let out of the bottle.
Problems are something we’ve all got in common. You may scoff, but the Arab Spring could be the H+ upgrade we’ve been waiting for, because it’s nearly 2012 and nothing is sacred, as each of us moves inexorably towards personal tipping points, financially, environmentally, mentally, et al. At this time, things are more difficult because human evolution is badly handicapped by the greed virus.
I have to congratulate Sonia Arrison on putting together a book that is both highly accessible to newbies with no prior background in transhumanist thinking or longevity researcher, and also richly interesting to those of us who have playing in these regions of conceptual space for a long time.
Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION is a metaphor for what all good films do: They create a dream world: an alternate, fantastical reality which a subject (or audience) can enter. The audience then fills this ‘reality template’ with their subconscious projections: our hopes, longings, fears, all parlayed all in an epic quest for catharsis and rebirth.
The Golem, the Homunculus – most have never heard of these terms. These terms and the concepts they stood for flourished in the middle ages in the Middle East and through the Middle East into Europe. The men behind these ideas, seeking immortality and superior human abilities and powers, were the ideological predecessors of the transhumanist movement.
One perspective on aging broadly recognized as important is the mitochondrial theory — tying aging to changes in the function of mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of the cell. This article reviews the mitochondrial theory of aging, with an aim of describing enough of the science to give the lay reader a real sense of what the theory is about.
On December 3 and 4, Humanity+ will host the first-ever transhumanist conference in Asia — Humanity+ Hong Kong, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I’m going to make an argument that this is more than just a great conference … it may even be a sort of historic event!
Welcome to the future. Amongst many of the ambient factors we’re now living with; like the Arab Spring, global warming, overpopulation and the daily extinction of species, Transhumanism (H+) is an elitist social faction born from the silent screams of billions of cyperpunks who once believed that technology could improve mankind. Meantime, Tyrants have fallen; Tipping points are rife and Entropy remains ruthless. It’s more than half-way through 2011 and the ramp to the apocalypse, or singularity, has already begun.
More reasons why Christianity and Transhumanism share very similar basic values. We should restate that these articles are addressed to those who believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God and who interpret it literally, unless it is obvious that a certain passage is metaphorical.
Many people are presented with options to enhance their abilities and do so on a regular basis; even though the most popular option may be caffeine, there are many others available, and even more will become available in the coming years. The future holds the potential for a wide variety of scientific discoveries to change the way the brain works and improve it drastically. There are varieties of cognitive enhancement being developed, but they may not achieve their potential unless scientists are able to overcome specific hurdles in development.
