Halloween+: Frankenstein and Transhumanism
If you haven’t read Mary Shelley’s transhumanist horror fiction Frankenstein, today is the day to do it!
If you haven’t read Mary Shelley’s transhumanist horror fiction Frankenstein, today is the day to do it!
Dr. Max More, President & CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, on Cryonics & the Future of Emergency Medicine.
Last month, an NYU Med School doc published an article saying that our gut bacteria might be evolved to promote our digestion when we’re young, but kill us when we’re old. This sounds like evolutionarily programmed death–just the kind of...
In popular sci-fi show ‘Black Mirror’, realistic digital personalities of the dead, mind clones, are recreated from data alone. How realistic is this idea?
As we march into the technological frontier, new possibilities for humanity are emerging — along with new questions
How does the futuristic drive to enhance humans beyond their most worrying biological limits using technological means relate to faith-based approaches to humanity’s worldly limits?
Transhumanism should not alienate the public, but “transhumanism” does exactly that. Aubrey de Grey at the recent Transvision 2014 conference.
I have written extensively on why: 1) we should use technology to defeat death; 2) death is one of the greatest tragedies to befall us; and 3) death makes completely meaningful lives impossible. In my recent post I summarized Nick...
David Benatar is professor of philosophy best known for his advocacy of anti-natalism.
Richard Dawkins is wrong. He wants us to stop whining about our deaths; to stop fearing our ultimate demise, because we are lucky to be alive.