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Skrying Excremental Fans from Idaho and Manhattan - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:16:49 -0700

Skrying Excremental Fans from Idaho and Manhattan
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Super Sad True Love Story is a great novel, and the depiction of self-absorbed libertopian transhumanism in a world going to Hell will steel the will of ...

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Conflicting Convictions of Personhood and Emulated Personhood - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:29:13 -0700

Conflicting Convictions of Personhood and Emulated Personhood
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
At the heart of all this could be a very Buddhist explanation that we seek to escape from suffering. In the present world, we seek to identify ourselves ...

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Why believers in immortality must read Super Sad True Love Story - Scientific American (blog)

news.google.com — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:18:44 -0700

Why believers in immortality must read Super Sad True Love Story
Scientific American (blog)
Transhumanists! Singularitarians! Listen up! You who harbor a fervent faith in science's imminent transformation of our frail, fleshy selves. ...

A question of respect - Montreal Gazette

news.google.com — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:56:53 -0700

A question of respect
Montreal Gazette
Whatever they believe, the adherents of militant fundamentalist religions, or any other militant fundamentalism, certainly do not act according to a ...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Computerandvideogames.com

news.google.com — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:39:23 -0700

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Computerandvideogames.com
It's about the danger of transhumanism and things like that. A lot of things were bringing us back to Leonardo DaVinci's work. After the black death, ...

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A Paradox of Enhancement - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:15:15 -0700

A Paradox of Enhancement
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Many transhumanists are enthusiastic about the possibilities of cognitive enhancement. Such enthusiasts might say something like: “I want to use advanced ...

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Zombies, Human Sonar, and Transhumanism: an Interview with Rutgers Professor ... - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:03:08 -0700

Zombies, Human Sonar, and Transhumanism: an Interview with Rutgers Professor ...
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Her interest spans both Western psychology (cognitive and evolutionary psychology but also psycho-analysis) and Eastern (especially Buddhist) psychology. ...

Israel's Value to TransHumanism - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:47:21 -0700

Israel's Value to TransHumanism
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Einstein, along with many other Jewish luminaries were non-religious and did not identify with zionism, Jewish superstitions, etc. ...

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The dark side of the Shaker religious sect - Salon

news.google.com — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:35:04 -0700

Salon

The dark side of the Shaker religious sect
Salon
However, the Malzberg-Ballard camp is still righteously represented today, most notably and surprisingly of late by the cutting-edge transhumanist Charles ...

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Can We Be Happy Forever In Robot Bodies? By Andrew Cvercko and Kris Notaro - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:41:43 -0700

Can We Be Happy Forever In Robot Bodies? By Andrew Cvercko and Kris Notaro
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
This philosophy was useful when Buddha came up with it around 500 BC, because back then life pretty much sucked, and then you died - but now we have ...

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The Abolition of Loneliness - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:07:08 -0700

The Abolition of Loneliness
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
I believe that transhumanists need to annihilate the sad, estranged, socially-disconnected emotion of loneliness by creating an abundance of cures. ...

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The Bible and birth control - OneNewsNow

news.google.com — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:51:18 -0700

OneNewsNow

The Bible and birth control
OneNewsNow
"We are moving in directions called Transhumanism, which is an evolutionary vision to see people move from the natural state that God has created them to ...

True Blood & the Darker Side of Enhancement - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:28:47 -0700

True Blood & the Darker Side of Enhancement
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Quote - "Far from threatening individuality, transhumanism should be seen as highlighting the need for such a framework and a real acceptance of ...

Fellows Model Transhuman Diligence - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:53:42 -0700

Fellows Model Transhuman Diligence
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Natasha Vita-More will be keynoting the GOGBOT festival in the Netherlands, then she and I will be speaking at the Transhumanism and Spirituality conference ...

VR Manoj is Newest IEET Affiliate Scholar - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

news.google.com — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:54:43 -0700

VR Manoj is Newest IEET Affiliate Scholar
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
His specific interests in transhumanism range from cyborgs and metaverses to environmental and spiritual issues of the posthuman future. ...