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Posthuman Rights: Dimensions of Transhuman Worlds
Revista Teknokultura, 2015 There are at least three dimensions to rights. We may have and lack freedom to 1) be, 2) do, and 3) have. These dimensions reformulate Locke’s categories, and are further complicated by placing them within the context of domains such as natural or civil
Woody Evans
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The Future is Female! Trans(human) Voices of Cher and Anohni
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, 2021 In this article, I want to present trans(human) Cher and Anohni’s voice qualities. Both singers represent ambiguous and queer forms of femininity that denaturalizes the concept of gender and entangles the listener into a transgressive aesthetic ...
Konrad Sierzputowski
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Constructing Futures: Outlining a Transhumanist Vision of the Future and the Challenge to Christian Theology of its Proposed Uses of New and Future Developments in Technology [PDF]
, 2012 Transhumanists arc committed to re-evaluating the entire human condition and offering proposalsfor transcending mortality, principally by augmenting the human body with mechanical components or by transferring the human mind into intelligent hyper ...
Jackson, Darrell R.
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Small, EarlyView.Heating and cooling energy demand account for nearly half of the global energy consumption. SH and RC offer sustainable, zero‐energy strategies, but single‐mode devices lack adaptability. 3D dual‐mode devices, exploiting axial, flipping, and bending deformations, provide reversible switching with dynamic or passive control, representing a promising ...
Su Eon Lee +5 more
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Why they won't save us: Political dispositions in the conflicts of superheroes
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Comic book superheroes tend to be conservative and their opponents progressive. Here I explore the reasons for heroic conservatism, review recent disruptions to the trend, and consider what superhuman politics can tell us about our own transhuman and ...
Woody Evans
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CoSMO, 2017 This essay aims at explaining what we mean when we talk about philosophy of post-humanism, and is based on the book Il Postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità [Philosophical Posthumanism and its alterities] by Francesca Ferrando.
Davide Sisto
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Revista de Filosofia, 2020 This work promotes the thesis that humans are naturally transhuman. In order to achieve this, we present in the first two sections some examples of technological devices assembled to human beings, and we critically review the assumptions and dichotomies ...
Karina Silvia Pedace +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2014 The following article is to introduce the reader into a cultural and intellectual movement whose aim is to identify the need for improvement in human life in the sphere of physicality as well as mentality with the aid of modern technologies ...
Wendykowska, Emilia
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