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CYBORG ARTS IN THE PROJECTS OF TRANSHUMANIST BIOHACKERS
Since the beginning of the 21st century, a new artistic direction has been formed in biohacking – “the cyborg art” (cyborgism), whose leaders (cyborg artist Moon Ribas and “transhuman” or “the first cyborg” Neil Harbisson), promote a transhumanist ...
Yulia V. Khvastunova
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Transhumanism and human enhancement: A postmortem [PDF]
Fil: Vaccari, Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina. Macquarie University; Australia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Sede Andina.
Vaccari, Andrés
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Deep ASI Literacy: Educating for Alignment with Artificial Super Intelligent Systems
Abstract Artificial intelligence companies and researchers are currently working to create Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): AI systems that significantly exceed human problem‐solving speed, power, and precision across the full range of human solvable problems. Some have claimed that achieving ASI — for better or worse — would be the most significant
Nicolas J. Tanchuk
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RISK AND SACRAMENT: BEING HUMAN IN A COVID‐19 WORLD
In this article we examine the changing relationship to risk as revealed by the covid‐19 pandemic and the ways this has, and may in future, alter sacramental practice, considering the radical effects this could have on traditional Christian practice. We
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A matter of Matter. The Unmaking of Microscopic Bonds in Transnational Space.
Over the last decades, new architectures and infrastructures for containing and artificially reproducing the conditions at the very beginning of the Universe have surfaced across the world: a synthetic replica of the early Universe on Earth.
Blanca Pujals
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This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles ...
Alessandra Mularoni
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Digital Theology: Is the Resurrection Virtual? [PDF]
Many recent writers have developed a rich system of theological concepts inspired by computers. This is digital theology. Digital theology shares many elements of its eschatology with Christian post-millenarianism.
Steinhart, Eric
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Superlongevity and African Ethics
ABSTRACT I apply African moral precepts to the topic of ‘superlongevity’. I make the case that African theories give rise to three specific sorts of moral concern about life extension that are distinct from similar objections in Western literature: first, superlongevity presents a challenge to identity; second, significantly longer lives face increased
Christopher S. Wareham
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Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century [PDF]
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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Prayer, Participation, and Perfection in Dante's Commedia
Abstract This article stands at the intersection of two theological moments: one recognizing the theological authority of Dante Alighieri, especially in his Commedia, the other examining the relation of the doctrine of prayer to the doctrine of God. It argues that Dante can inform modern theological reflection on this relation in a profound way.
Stephen C. Pepper
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