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• When Dvorsky met Minsky

  Cross-posted from Sentient Developments Of all the celebrities and bigwigs I looked forward to meeting at TransVision 2007 there was only one person who I was truly nervous about running into – a person who gave me that 'I’m going to squeal Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:51 AM by George / 0 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, fermi paradox, life on other planets, transvision 2007, marvin minsky, machine intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy of mind

• All Together Now: Animal uplift paper complete and published

  I've finally completed my paper on animal uplift: All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals . It's been published at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies site under the Read More...
  Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:02 PM by George / 20 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Bioethics, animal rights, futurism, distributive justice, future of life, cultural uplift, animal uplift, personhood

• My review of "Building Gods"

  There is a rough-cut available on Google Video of the Four Door Films documentary, " Building Gods ." The video tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications. Four key philosophers are interviewed Read More...
  Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 9:50 PM by George / 8 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism

• John Bruce describes transhumanism as a cult

  I received an email from J Hughes today informing me about how blogger John Bruce has blasted Glenn Harlan Reynolds for promoting transhumanism. Here's the letter: The blogger John Bruce recently read Glenn Harlan Reynolds' Army of Davids, which promotes Read More...
  Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 9:23 PM by George / 10 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism

• I, Telepath: Inching towards 'techlepathy'

  Forbes Magazine is reporting on the ongoing work that Chuck Jorgensen is doing in developing subvocal speech for NASA. Chuck Jorgensen is a NASA scientist whose team has begun to digitize subvocal speech using nerve signals in the throat that control Read More...
  Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:32 AM by George / 3 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, techlepathy

• The EU's ENHANCE Project

  ENHANCE is a specific targeted research project put together by the EU that examines the ethics of human enhancement within cognitive enhancement , life extension , mood enhancement , and physical performance . The goal of the project is to reach a deeper Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:07 PM by George / 2 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Foresight, Human enhancement

• TTA meeting round-up for March 22, 2006

  Last night the Toronto Transhumanist Association (TTA) held an introductory talk on transhumanism at the University of Toronto . It was the first meeting organized by the TTA in over year, marking the first of many such events planned for the coming months. Read More...
  Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:25 PM by George / 0 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Toronto Transhumanist Association

• Rushkoff, Kurzweil to be on CNN special

  IEET fellow Douglas Rushkoff was recently recorded for a CNN special called Welcome to the Future , along with Jeff Greenfield, Ray Kurzweil, Mirka De Arellano, and Margaret Cho. The program will air on CNN Saturday March 25 at 7pm EST, and will be repeated Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:43 PM by George / 1 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Bioethics, Human enhancement

• Extreme 'natural' brains

  I have always been intrigued by superhuman feats of cognition. It's truly amazing what some people are capable of, be they math geniuses or musical prodigies. Moreover, from the perspective of neuroengineering, it's quite interesting to see how, given Read More...
  Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 9:50 PM by George / 7 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, cognitive enhancement, Human enhancement, Cognitive science

• Customizing the flesh

  Quinn Norton has published an article in Wired called Body Artists Customize Your Flesh in which he describes one of the more radical trends in body modification, namely subdermal implants . The article features an interview with body modification expert Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:43 PM by George / 2 Comments

  Tags: Transhumanism, Body modification