The Nature of Transhuman Nature
Neurobiological Transhumanism and Genetic Enlightenment.
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Evolution
What’s holding artificial life back from open-ended evolution?
Evolutionary artificial life systems have demonstrated many exciting behaviors. However, there is a general consensus that these systems are missing some element of the consistent evolutionary innovation that we see in nature.
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Plantoid: the blockchain-based art that makes itself
Plantoid is a self-creating, self-propagating artwork system that uses blockchain technology to gather and manage the resources it needs to become real.
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Evolution Will Change How You See The World — Evolutionary Thinking As Spirituality
“Evolution Will Change How You See The World.” may be the single most beautiful and profound video I have ever seen.
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DISRUPTIVE EVOLUTION — Transhumanism and Survival of the Quickest
Is Transhumanism an exercise in Unnatural Selection?
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The Three Epochs of Humanity
In these rapidly changing times the visions of the future fluctuate between a dystopian scenario of a rapid rise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the demise of humanity as we know it to a more utopian view of a happy marriage between developing Artificial Intelligence, human augmentation, nanotechnology and the human species.
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Notable Paper: The Formal Darwinism Project
Our new pick for a “notable” paper is “The formal darwinism project in outline” by Alan Grafen, published in Biology and Philosophy on 25 January 2014.
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Vital Questions — A Book Review
Life has been on earth about 4 billion years. If we think of each billion as a term at college, then for its Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years, life majored in chemistry.
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Fertility is Kaput, but Life Goes On
The mystery is not that we die after we lose our fertility; the mystery is why natural selection has permitted us to lose our fertility.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Universal Progressive Evolution
Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforth if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
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