Category: Death

Books / Death / Fiction / Historical / History / images / Science Fiction / Transhumanism

October 30, 2015

Halloween+: Frankenstein and Transhumanism

If you haven’t read Mary Shelley’s transhumanist horror fiction Frankenstein, today is the day to do it!

Cryonics / Death / Health & Medicine / Healthspan Enhancement / Immortality / Medicine / Religion / Russian Cosmism / Transhumanism / Video Friday / Videos

May 29, 2015

by Peter

Video Friday: Dr. Max More at the Church of Perpetual Life — Cryonics & the Future of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Max More, President & CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, on Cryonics & the Future of Emergency Medicine.

Aging / Death / Evolution / Medicine / Science

January 26, 2015

by Peter

Programmed Death, H. pylori, and the Legacy of George Williams

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...

Death / images / Immortality / Mind Uploading / Social Media / Virtual Reality

January 15, 2015

by Peter

Mindclones from Social Media: New Research from Stanford Suggests Feasibility

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?

Cognitive Liberty / Death / Healthspan Enhancement / images / Longevity / Opinion / Posthuman / Transhumanism

December 11, 2014

by Peter

Death Should be Optional

As we march into the technological frontier, new possibilities for humanity are emerging — along with new questions

Death / Immortality / Opinion / Philosophy / Religion / Transhumanism

December 1, 2014

by Peter

Death, Transcendence and Transhumanism

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?

Aging / Communications and Marketing / Conference / Death / images / Longevity / SENS / Transhumanism

November 26, 2014

by Peter

Demystifying Visionary Technology

Transhumanism should not alienate the public, but “transhumanism” does exactly that. Aubrey de Grey at the recent Transvision 2014 conference.

Death / Opinion / Philosophy

November 20, 2014

by Peter

Death Is Like A Ticking Time Bomb

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...