Brain Surgery and Personhood
Does brain surgery to treat disease change the essence of who we are?
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Personhood
Head Transplants and Personhood — Who Are You Really?
Wheelchair-bound Valery Spiridonov, who has the muscle-wasting Werdnig Hoffman disease, has volunteered to have his head transplanted onto a healthy body in a day-long operation.
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The Quantified Life of the Fluid Self
We never stop revising the picture we have of ourselves. We sense that our identities are fixed in place – rock-solid and immovable – but we’re wrong about that.
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Synthetic Selves
Synthetic bodies, mediated selves. What themes become relevant in a technoprogressive world – as objects proliferate, what do the inundated people talk about? You are alone, at a computer. You talk to people but they are not around.
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Is Automation Making Us Stupid?
Automation is the process whereby any action, decision or function that was once performed by a human (or non-human animal) is taken over by a machine.
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Review: Our Technological Identity Crisis by Colin Marchon
Film student Colin Marchon delivers a nice 3 part series on transhumanist themes.
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Two Interpretations of the Extended Mind Hypothesis
I’m trying to wrap my head around the extended mind hypothesis.
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Neuroenhancement and the Extended Mind Hypothesis
Is your smartphone really an extended part of your mind?
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The 3D Printed You
3D printing, once an arcane technology used mainly for developing industrial prototypes, is rapidly moving into everyday life. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the phenomenon of the 3D self replica.
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