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• The Transhumanist Logic of Technological Innovation

  
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  What follows are a series underdeveloped thoughts for your consideration: Advances in robotics , AI, and automation promise to liberate human beings from labor. The Programmable World promises to liberate us from mundane, routine, everyday tasks. Big Data and algorithms promise to liberate us from the ...
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• Transhumanism: How the Elite Plan to Live Forever

  
  Susanne Posel OccupyCorporatism.com Daily News — Authority: 485
  Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism December 13, 2012       The eugenicists at The Royal Society, in conjunction with Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy and Royal Academy of Engineering came together this month to discuss the potentials, opportunities and challenges of the melding of man ...
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• Ben Goertzel - Countering Objections to Mind Uploading (and Refuting that Countering)

  
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  In this post from IEET, Ben Goertzel offers his rebuttal to a recent article by George Dvorsky at io9 on why we will likely never be able to upload our "minds" into computers. He gave 8 reasons, none of which is the most crucial reason. Before getting to the 9th reason, there is one REALLY important piece that has ...
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• Book review and recommendation: Zoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager

  
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  The few books I read tend to circle around values.  Two such books, among the very best I’ve ever read, are Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the art of motorcycle maintanance , and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Just yesterday, I finished reading Zoltan Istvan’s “ The Transhumanist Wager “, and I emphatically ...
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• Why Augmentation Isn’t So “Far Out”

  
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  The term “augmentation” – when referring to humans – has a tendency to call forth mental images of Terminator-like, red-eyed androids with steel limbs and laser guns. Tinkering with that is “human” may seem like a far-out concept, but from the vantage point of technology, it’s a process we’ve been ...
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• VIDEO! Proof of Nephilim Hybrids as Described in the Bible

  
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  Reblogged from vineoflife.net: "As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron … Continue reading →
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• Zero State Founder Amon Kalkin on Singularity 1 on 1: Reject Apathy!

  
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  Amon Kalkin is a cognitive scientist, electronic artist and founder of Zero State . He is 40 years old, born in New Zealand and living in the UK, where he spends his time raising a young family and gardening when he isn’t working to create a sphere of influence for positive futurist values. During my interview ...
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• Omnivore - The Future of Human Beings

  
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  From Bookforum s Omnivore Blog, here is a nice collection of links on humanitys future, transhumanism, human enhancement, and other related topics. The future of human beings MAY 2 2013   1:00PM From Transhumanity, what should transhumanity regard as it’s primary goal ? Extropia DaSilva ...
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• Transhumanism Makes it Off, Off Broadway

  
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  Themes of how we will relate to each other when we live in Ray Kurzweils singularity and are no longer oragnic, just disembodied consciousnesses uploaded to the digital world, have made it to Broadway. Well off, off Broadway at least. Broadway World reports on "Love Machine": What do a small town girl flirting ...
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• Transhumanism: Amputating Healthy Limbs

  
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  In the last episode of BioTalk , Rebecca Taylor and I talked all about transhumanism. Admittedly, it was probably the most “sci-fi-ish” sounding of all the pro-life 3.0 issues, but lest any of you consider some of our claims to be too outlandish to be taken seriously — specifically, the idea of people ...
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• Heart energy connects the world!

  
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  “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? I just came across a youtube that disturbs me somewhat. It starts off by … Continue reading →
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• New Article Up at IEET

  
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  Read it here . Happy May Day!
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• Exhibition – HAHA – Metamorphosis – Melbourne

  
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    Before I left Melbourne, I had been an avid reader of Ha-Has "The Unreal Adventures Of HaHa" blog – in which he was documenting his travels overseas. Always hilarious, always thought provoking and conspiritorially cool. After a lengthy stay overseas, painting and showing across the eurozone and asia, HaHA has now ...
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• Ted Talk on MMI

  
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• Brain-Computer Interface Coming Closer

  
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  New York Times - 4/28/13 by Nick Bilton “The current brain technologies are like trying to listen to a conversation in a football stadium from a blimp,” said John Donoghue, a neuroscientist and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. “To really be able to understand what is going on with the brain ...
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• Zoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager Is A Choice We’ll All Have To Make

  
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  While I personally loved the first half of The Transhumanist Wager  and disliked much of the second, I am convinced that the novel is a must read for anyone interested in the future of our civilization. In my view the novel is full of interesting and controversial contradictions. For example, on the one hand Zoltan ...
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• Bad Bishop

  
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  (a science fiction fragment) I have the same dream every night. In my dream I am jolted upright from a dead sleep. My body surges forward at an impossible speed. I am aware of a deep and loving calm guiding my actions as I devour a giant breakfast of bitter green plants and a thick burgundy liquid. I can feel ...
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• Perfect days: A moment of “Zen”..

  
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  Searching for meaning in your life ? I’ve said it before, and I quite happily repeat it here: The meaning of l ife is Joy in the present moment, and anyone who tells you different is a lying conniving asshole ! No, says infamous Indian Guru, Osho / Baghwan Rajneesh, there is no meaning in existence ...
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• Dale on Zuckerberg’s Dream

  
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  This is good stuff. Dale critiques Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s one-identity mantra as simultaneously creepy and confused. Particularly when coming from governments or corporations like Facebook and Google, I find the relentless drive to know everything deeply troubling. As Jaron Lanier writes, attempts to ...
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• Life given to the Beast?

  
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  I have been doing a little research on transhumanism, man and machine combined, nano-technoloty, and the stuff I’m finding is literally out of this world and beyond comprehension. For this … Continue reading →
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