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Cubism – Transhumanism (WIP-Preview) Burcuk. Official Podcast of New York City Skeptics - Current Episodes - RS17 - Transhumanism. Should We Fear Transhumanism And Identity Copying? March 11, 2005 Should We Fear Transhumanism And Identity Copying?

Should We Fear Transhumanism And Identity Copying?

On the Marginal Revolution blog Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen are debating transhumanism. Tyler discusses how much will people be willing to genetically engineer their children when doing so makes the children be less like their parents. Most people want their children to look like themselves, and to some extent to think like themselves. We invest many thousands of dollars and many months of our time to acculturate our children. As for the idea of making kids 1% happier: It will become trivially easier to genetically engineer offspring to feel happier: give them genes that make their minds feel happy even in the face of adversity.

Regarding uploads: the ability to copy one's mind into a synthetic brain will cause some severe problems. Even without uploads the potential exists to some day infect a person (or an entire population) with a virus that changes personality and motivation. The Mormon DaVinci Code — Logos Apologia. Technology & the Future. A Questionable Editorial Decision. Transhumanism: A Christian Sub-Cult. Transhumanism - Wikimedia. Transhumanism. Lockheed Martin tests its Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton.

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Photo: Lockheed Martin Wired | Dec 31, 2012 By David Axe The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” — including drugs, special nutrition, electroshock, gene therapy and robotic implants and prostheses — are poorly understood, Lin and his colleagues Maxwell Mehlman and Keith Abney posit in a new report for The Greenwall Foundation (.pdf), scheduled for wide release tomorrow.

Transhumanism. Christian Transhumanism. Technofascism blog » transhumanism. The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism. Alertsweden.bloggo.nu. Transhumanism « Paying Attention To The Sky. I occasionally check out the David Bentley Hart Appreciation Page to see what has surfaced.

Transhumanism « Paying Attention To The Sky

This is a splendid review of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, with a focus on the Trans-humanists in our midst (elsewhere I call them Diabolists, recalling G.K. Alexander Kruel · Thoughts and news on transhumanism, vegetarianism, science fiction, science, philosophy, math, programming, language, consciousness and the nature reality. Archived from 4chan /sci/ - Science & Math. When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism. The future is impossible to predict.

When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism

But that’s not going to stop people from trying. We can at least pretend to know where it is we want humanity to go. We hope that laws we craft, the technologies we invent, our social habits and our ways of thinking are small forces that, when combined over time, move our species towards a better existence. Chance McMahon. H+ And now for something totally different!

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For me, my introduction into one of the most dangerous ideas in history started innocently enough. It started with my own imagination, and my propensity for role-playing. I created a race for a particular game that I called the "Helios" - the Helios were a race of hyper-advanced humans whose bodies were made out of programmable matter. They resembled normal humans except for the "sinklines," which were bleed-off grooves in the skin to allow for the release of excess heat (hence their names) generated by their inbuilt power plants. Each individual Helios was a walking Swiss Army tool; their programmable matter nature meant that they had absolute control over their body. No Concept of “Perfect” in Transhumanism. I’d like to take a moment to correct the record on perfection.

No Concept of “Perfect” in Transhumanism

The below image has been kicking around the net for the past week or so, with the allegation that by combining all the most beautiful women in the world, you get the most definitively beautiful woman in the world. Counter-intuitively, combining all of these images (and one could take issue with the initial roster, of course) results in a face that is both lovely and, well, boring. Take the final face and compare it with any of the real women at the top.

The little nuances of difference, the minute flaws, the subtle skin shades, eye shapes, blemishes, asymmetries, and oddities of the real women make them more attractive than the “perfect” combination at the bottom. (click image to see enlarged version) Human rights from the perspective of politics, art, philosophy (hence p.a.p.), law, economics, statistics, psychology etc. Is the new glow-in-the-dark kitty a look into the future of human genetic engineering? - Mary Meets Dolly. Scientists at the Mayo clinic have made a glow-in-the-dark kitty.

Is the new glow-in-the-dark kitty a look into the future of human genetic engineering? - Mary Meets Dolly

This is not the first time scientists have made cats glow with the green fluorescent protein (GFP) which was originally isolated from jellyfish. But these kitties are different. They do not just have the GFP gene but also a genetically engineered resistance to the feline version of HIV. The GFP and the resistance were inserted together. Mary Meets Dolly. My husband watches the new TV show "Intelligence" starring Josh Holloway (previously Sawyer from Lost) as Gabriel, a man with a rare genetic mutation (or some such) that allowed the U.S. government to put a chip in his brain.

Mary Meets Dolly

This chip gives Gabriel unlimited access to the Internet directly into his consciousness. As an agent for a super secret intelligence agency, that comes in super handy. Gabriel, the best of all guys, uses his enhancement only for good. He saves people and catches bad guys and he looks good doing it. Category » Transhumanism « @ Helian Unbound. Japan's Humanoid Hottie. Androids - Are they already near us? -機人. Female Robot Sex Toys. Female Android Robot fembot Aiko Demo 2. Female Android Sex Toy In Japan.

Human robots !! View topic - Transhumanism...A Satanic Endeavor. George Dvorsky: Transhumanism And Life Extension (part 1) Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 2/2) (PhysOrg.com) -- Dr.

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 2/2)

Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) software project; Chief Technology Officer of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Director of Engineering of digital media firm Vzillion Inc.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Conference Series.

His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas, Dr. Goertzel has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles, and the futurist treatise A Cosmist Manifesto. Dr. Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 1/2) (PhysOrg.com) -- Dr.

Interview: Dr. Ben Goertzel on Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source (Part 1/2)

Ben Goertzel is Chairman of Humanity+; CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) software project; Chief Technology Officer of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Director of Engineering of digital media firm Vzillion Inc.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Conference Series.

His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas, Dr. Goertzel has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles, and the futurist treatise A Cosmist Manifesto. Dr. Transhumanism In Doomwatch. Back in December, 2008, I had the opportunity to interview the late great Mac Tonnies about his interest in what has become known as “transhumanism.” My Dumbpiphany on Cosmism. Ben Goertzel and Giulio Prisco, both Fellows at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, articulate a “philosophy” known as Cosmism. The IEET has been posting Goertzel’s musings on Cosmism on the blog and, save the incoherent ramblings of a few of Goertzel’s obsequious genuflectors, that’s about all the attention the project has received.

For a long time now, I’ve been reading both Goertzel’s blog proper as well as the posts and comments on the IEET and have been deeply conflicted as to how to respond. I have a solid foundation in philosophy, science, and religion. To say that I am part of a select group of people uniquely situated to comprehend and judge where Goertzel is trying to go with Cosmism is not overstatement of the facts. Blog Posts tagged "transhumanism" If you find Goodiepal’s artwork to be inexplicable, it may be because you’re not a robot or a blade of grass. Goodiepal (alternately spelled Gaeoudjiparl or Gaodjiperl) has in fact directed his unique and absurd concerts/lectures/performance art/stand up comedy/show-and-tell toward AI.

As he waxes in his Mort Aux Vaches lecture, “We need to start to talk to the machines as human beings, bringing and expecting machines to understand what we are saying....in a Utopian future, [my] work is not only made to be appreciated by human minds. Transhumanism on Vimeo. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSHUMANISM full lecture. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSHUMANISM 02. Transhumanism: most dangerous idea in the world? New Life Form:Transhumanism. Arsenic-associated bacteria (NASA's claims) A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus. Transhumanism. Mind uploading. Whole brain emulation (WBE) or mind uploading (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical process of copying mental content (including long-term memory and "self") from a particular brain substrate and copying it to another computational device, such as a digital, analog, quantum-based or software based artificial neural network.

The computational device could then run a simulation model of the brain information processing, such that it responds in essentially the same way as the original brain (i.e., indistinguishable from the brain for all relevant purposes) and experiences having a conscious mind.[1][2][3] Video About Transhumanism Mainframe Computer. Transhumanism. Top Five Reasons Transhumanism Can Eliminate Suffering. David Pearce October 21, 2010 Reality is big. Janelle Monae turns rhythm and blues into science fiction. Apollo Lemmon » transhumanism. Transhumanism. All tagged transhumanism. Cameron and John Connor sitting in a temporal tree... Andrew.pilsch.com. I’ve been reading Paul Virilio lately for a paper that was originally going to be about Virilio’s warped remixes of the Frankfurt School (it would have been called “Electro-Shock: Virilio and the Spectre of the Frankfurt School”).

Future Hi: Transhumanism Archives. Notes to Why "Why Transhumanism Won't Work" Won't Work. The article is now up on the IEET website, HERE. (A PDF version can be found here.) Transhumanism « coms340gallery. Axis of Output · transhumanism. Transhumanism « Neuroethics at the Core. Transhumanism Posts - The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. Trans Humanism. Luddite Transhumanism. Tinkering With Libido Part I. NeuroSky - MindSet. Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Futurism, Prometheism, Cosmotheism, Eugenics. Wiki: Transhumanism. Transhumanism. Mormonism and Transhumanism. “Designer Babies” and Transhumanism @ Helian Unbound.

Advancing Rejuvenation Biotechnologies. Return transhumanism - WN.COM advanced search. Accelerating Future » Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies. Futurisms: The Mainstreaming of Transhumanism. Daniel Durrant's Amplify » transhumanism. Articles Tagged ‘transhumanism’ - Less Wrong Discussion. The Age of Transitions (full length documentary) Books tagged transhumanism. Transhumanism. Anders Transhuman Page. Singularity Theory May Explain Fermi Paradox.

Biomedical engineers analyze—and duplicate—the neural mechanism of learning in rats [link] - Less Wrong Discussion. All In The Mind - 19 September 2009 - The coming of 'The Singularity'...or not? Transhumanism Debate: Dr. James Hughes At East Texas Baptist University. iKnow Community: Rafael Popper. Scenario Land. iKnow Community: Search: transhumanism.