Halloween+: Frankenstein and Transhumanism
If you haven't read Mary Shelley's transhumanist horror fiction Frankenstein, today is the day to do it!
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Death
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.
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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 thesis that I have been promoting for 18 years. The article was picked up by Scientific American, Psychology Today, Science News, and Eurekalart of the AAAS. W...
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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?
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Death Should be Optional
As we march into the technological frontier, new possibilities for humanity are emerging — along with new questions
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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?
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Demystifying Visionary Technology
Transhumanism should not alienate the public, but “transhumanism” does exactly that. Aubrey de Grey at the recent Transvision 2014 conference.
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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 Bostrom’s story that makes similar points. In response I received this perceptive comment: Love that story. Given that we now see death as a result of genetic programmin...
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Is It Better Never To Have Been Born? (anti-natalism)
David Benatar is professor of philosophy best known for his advocacy of anti-natalism.
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Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Death
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.
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