George

SETI and the human craving for uplift

I just finished reading a rather weak and unconvincing critique of SETI by Peter Schenkel over at the Skeptical Inquiry site. It contains the usual errors: an over emphasis on the Rare Earth Hypothesis , far too many sociological considerations that couldn’t Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:35 PM by George / 1 Comments

Tags: SETI, life on other planets, cultural uplift, animal uplift, science fiction

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh on the welfare of apes in captivity

Tomorrow, on August 14, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh will be giving a presentation about the welfare of apes in captivity at a conference oraganized by the Animal Behavior Society . Savage-Rumbaugh, who is a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa (a Read More...

Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:50 PM by George / 0 Comments

Tags: Bioethics, animal rights, animal welfare, animal uplift, personhood, great ape trust, sue savage-rumbaugh, great apes, cultural uplif

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