“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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Redefining the Philosophical Body through a Merleau-Pontian Lens in the Age of Transhumanism: Implications for Sports [PDF]
In the modern world, unprecedented technological advancements have fundamentally transformed our understanding of the human body and our lived experiences. Among these, transhumanism stands as one of the greatest philosophical and practical challenges of
Mina Emami +3 more
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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Transhumanism and New Challenges in Political Theories [PDF]
Extended AbstractIntroduction: Transhumanism, which emerged in the 1950s with Julian Huxley’s ideas, is an intellectual and philosophical movement that seeks to enhance human physical, mental, and ethical capacities through advanced technologies such as ...
Matin Anjomrooz, Mohammad Khezri
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer +3 more
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«The Future of Humans in a Post-Human World»: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson's 2019 novel, is a mirror transposition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The novel adumbrates a posthuman or transhuman life to be lived “forever as brain emulation” (Winterson 2020, 104).
Fausto Ciompi
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Transhuman Perfection: The Eradication of Disability Through Transhuman Technologies
This paper examines transhuman technologies that seek to eradicate disability - primarily prostheses and implants. While most would agree that disability denies individuals the same quality of life as those deemed “abled,” this eradication ultimately ...
David-Jack Fletcher
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Left Accelerationism, Transhumanism and the Dialectic: Three Manifestos
Left accelerationism and the transhuman subject who embodies this movement’s political potential have multivalent relations to Marxism. Whilst recent interventions such as Srnicek and Williams’ #Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and ...
Paddy Gordon
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Transhuman and posthuman – on relevance of "cyborgisation" on legal and ethical issues [PDF]
I will discuss issues which can be seen as taken strictly from the science fiction literature. Nonetheless, I would like to demonstrate that those issues not so far from now will have a big influence on the ethical discourse and also the law and social ...
Michalczak, Rafał
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Multifunctional Sweat Sensors Using Semiconductor Fibers Based on Two‐Dimensional Nanomaterials
This research presents a multifunctional wearable platform utilizing semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)/polylactic acid (PLA) composite fibers for continuous health monitoring. The fiber‐based architecture enables spontaneous sweat collection via capillary action and maintains a stable thermodynamic microenvironment.
Jun Hyun Park +10 more
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