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The semantics of transdisciplinary concepts of socio-natural co-evolution: a constructive utopia, social verification and evolutionary risk [PDF]

, 2015
The utopian character of modern scientific theories, with the human nature as a subject, is an inevitable consequence of the presence of an imperative component of transdisciplinary human dimensional scientific knowledge.
Kosova, Yulia, Valentin, Cheshko
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REIMAGINING DAOIST ALCHEMY, DECOLONIZING TRANSHUMANISM: THE FANTASY OF IMMORTALITY CULTIVATION IN TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY CHINA

Zygon, 2020
This article studies a new fantasy subgenre that emerged in contemporary China, xiuzhen xiaoshuo (immortality cultivation fiction), which builds imaginary worlds around the magical practice of Chinese alchemy and fuses it with science and technology ...
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Slouching toward New Humanism. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Contini P, Osmanaj E.
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Transhumanism within the Natural Law: Transforming Creation with Nature as Guide

Religions
Transhumanism is an unsettling prospect for proponents of a natural law ethic. The goal of transhumanism is to fundamentally alter our human nature, while the natural law tradition relies on this nature for producing normative claims.
Daniel T. Crouch
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Marxist Transhumanism?

New Proposals, 2022
The paper argues that a Marxist transhumanism is politically and ethically incoherent. While it is true that transhumanists and Marxists and transhumanists believe that human beings are self-determining, self-transforming, transhumanists are committed ...
Jeff Noonan
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From human rights to person rights : legal reflections on posthumanism and human enhancement [PDF]

, 2012
In the intersection between law, science and technology lies the debate on the overcoming of the boundaries of the biological structure of the human being and its implications on the idea of human rights, on the concept of person and on the conception of
Franco Silva, Denis
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On the Maximal Quantity of Processed Information in the Physical Eschatological Context

, 2001
An estimate of the maximal informational content available to advanced extraterrestrial or future (post)human civilizations is presented. It is shown that the fundamental thermodynamical considerations may lead to a quantitative estimate of the largest ...
Cirkovic, Milan M., Radujkov, Marina
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Mitigations to Reduce the Law of Unintended Consequences for Autonomy and Other Technological Advances [PDF]

The United Nations states that Earths population is expected to reach just under 10 billion people (9.7) by the year 2050. To meet the demands of 10 billion people, governments, multinational corporations and global leaders are relying on autonomy and ...
Morris, A. Terry, Santiago-Espada, Yamira   +1 more
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Brains, Selves and Spirituality in the History of Cybernetics [PDF]

, 2013
Paper presented at the Templeton Workshop, ‘Transhumanism and the Meanings of Progress,’ Arizona State University, 24-25 April ...
Pickering, Andrew
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Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth, 2023
Brennan C.
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