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TRANSHUMANISM AND MORAL EQUALITY [PDF]
Bioethics, 2007 ABSTRACTConservative thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama have produced a battery of objections to the transhumanist project of fundamentally enhancing human capacities. This article examines one of these objections, namely that by allowing some to greatly extend their capacities, we will undermine the fundamental moral equality of human beings.
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
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What the surrogate touches: The haptic threshold of transhuman embodiment
Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2016 not available.
David P. Parisi
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Body Consciousness in Modern Urban Surroundings: Freerunning and Parkour [PDF]
, 2016 The paper covers the matter of body consciousness in modern urban surroundings. Somatic disciplines known as Freerunning and Parkour are presented as activities of a performative nature that can be understood and practised as means of redefining an ...
Petri, Jakub
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Anatomy as embodied resistance in an age of digital abstraction
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 9, Page 1013-1020, September 2025.Abstract Amid the accelerating integration of digital technologies in the health professional education, anatomy education with an emphasis on engagement with real human bodies can provide a crucial counterweight to digital abstraction. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and algorithm‐driven medicine may lead to the intrinsic value of embodied ...
Claudia Krebs, Sabine Hildebrandt
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Transhumanism and human enhancement: A postmortem [PDF]
, 2015 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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Humanum ex machina: Translation in the post-global, posthuman world [PDF]
, 2017 Translation sits at the epicentre of the biotech era’s exponential growth. e terms of reference of this discipline are becoming increasingly unstable as humans interface with machines, become melded with them, and ultimately become a networked entity ...
O'Thomas, Mark
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ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 1968 In his famous paper, Julian Huxley gives the outline of what he believes future humanity could – and should – look like. By pointing out the numerous limitations and feebleness the human nature is – at the time – prone to, and by confronting them with the possibilities humankind has, Huxley expresses the need to research and put into use all possible ...
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Entropy’s Enemies: Postmodern Fission and Transhuman Fusion in the Post-War Era
Humanities, 2020 In the early to mid-twentieth century, thermodynamic entropy—the inevitable diffusion of usable energy in the Universe—became a ubiquitous metaphor for the dissolution of Western values and cultural energy.
Jordan Burr
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Deep ASI Literacy: Educating for Alignment with Artificial Super Intelligent Systems
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 739-764, August 2025.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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