Tag: transhumanism | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, billionaires, culture, family, friendship, grief, HBO, immortality, media, Norway, privilege, succession, television, transhumanism, wealth}

HBO Toys with Transhumanism

_{Peter Biles
May 31, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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As a plot element, a popular show about a family-owned media empire hints at the desire to live forever. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Technology
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), books, Brave New World, censorship, dystopia, libraries, music, noise, novels, paper, podcasts, radios, Singularity, sound, transhumanism}

Here’s Another Transhumanist Dream Come True — Revisiting Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

_{Peter Biles
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom, Technology

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Despite all the transhumanist predictions of the Singularity, it’s hard to dismiss the fact that to a certain degree we’ve already merged with our machines. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, children, cyberspace, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender dysphoria, hormones, lifestyle, mastectomies, Medicaid, mental illness, penis, puberty, Singularity, spinal cord, Stanford University, surgery, transableism, transgenderism, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights, uterus, uterus transplant, vagina, zealotry}

We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
February 15, 2023

Categories
Applied Sciences
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Big Data, C.S. Lewis, education, elitism, faith, government, knowledge, magic, media, milk, morality, Neo-Darwinism, reality, soul, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism, virtue}

Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them

_{Peter Biles
February 15, 2023

Applied Sciences, Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Transhumanism, arguably an offshoot of neo-Darwinism, is set on envisioning the next grand step of human evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, chatbot, ChatGPT, computer program, computers, death, faith, software, transhumanism, transhumanists}

The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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If eternal life is attainable, it will be found by working on one’s soul in faith, not by developing ever-more-advanced AI computers. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer, consciousness, Dante, Divine Comedy, Garden of Eden, gods, immortality, machines, materialism, myths, Science Uprising, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Yuval Noah Harari}

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2022

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Arts
Bioethics
Culture
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, bestsellers, Dogs, English, Humanize, New York Times, novels, Pennsylvania, transhumanism, writing}

Wesley Smith Talks with Dean Koontz: Human Exceptionalism, Meaning in Life, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2022

Arts, Bioethics, Culture, Human Exceptionalism

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Dean and Wesley discuss how Dean came to be an author, the importance of human exceptionalism, and the problem with transhumanism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, Big Tech, boredom, Brave New World, computer games, Davos, drugs, eugenics, gene editing, machines, nihilism, technocrats, transhumanism, universities, vehicles, Yuval Harari}

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Technology
Tagged
, asceticism, Big Tech, Christianity, death, faith, fasting, Huffington Post, immortality, materialism, Nick Bostrom, nihilism, prayer, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, St. Paul, theology, transhumanism, Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Zoltan Istvan}

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 1, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Technology

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First principles matter, and those of transhumanism and Christianity could not be more contradictory. Read More ›