Category Archives: Transhumanist

Is Robocop Transhumanist Programming or a Police State Exposé?
The new Robocop trailer is a chilling depiction of a technocratic police state run by ruthless military industrial complex corporations. But will it be an ex...

By: Alex M.

See more here:
Is Robocop Transhumanist Programming or a Police State Exposé? - Video

Little Inferno Soundtrack 12 - Transhumanist Connects

By: WBiankaW

Visit link:
Little Inferno Soundtrack 12 - Transhumanist Connects - Video

Zoltan Istvan - The Transhumanist Wager
When I set out to write The Transhumanist Wager five years ago, I did not intend it to become an edgy, controversial book. For much of my adult life, I have ...

By: Adam Ford

Read the rest here:
Zoltan Istvan - The Transhumanist Wager - Video

Tim Cannon, a biohacker and transhumanist, recently had a large computer chip implanted into his body.

The computer chip can record and transmit his body temperature to any Android-powered cell phone via Bluetooth.

During a bizarre interview with Vice.com, the Circadia 1.0 computer chip was implanted into Cannons left forearm by body modifier Steve Haworth without the use of anesthesia (video below).

Haworth was chosen because a medically-licensed surgeon wouldn't be allowed to implant a device that is not approved by the government.

Cannon's company Grindhouse Wetware created the battery-powered device, which is charged by placing a charger against the skin.

Instead of taking snapshots of your health by visiting a doctor, you can aggregate weeks or months of medical data that you can store for your personal viewing," states GrindhouseWetware.com.

Cannon believes the Circadia implant will allow him to study what causes his temperature to fall or rise, and may lead to a much longer life.

The human body is really really failing in almost every way, said Cannon. I want to live to be thousands of years old. I dont want to die. I dont know why anybody would.

Googles director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, also a transhumanist, told the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in June that most of the human body will be replaced by "machine" parts, noted the Daily Mail.

Were going to become increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any more," said Kurzweil. "In fact the non-biological part, the machine part, will be so powerful it can completely model and understand the biological part. So even if that biological part went away it wouldnt make any difference.

Original post:
Transhumanist Tim Cannon Has Large Computer Chip Implanted in Arm (Video)

David Pearce - Google vs Death - Aging Research, a Transhumanist Response - Part 2
Editing - Part 2 will be combined with part 1 to make one video soon.

By: Adam Ford

Continue reading here:
David Pearce - Google vs Death - Aging Research, a Transhumanist Response - Part 2 - Video

David Pearce - Google vs Death - Aging Research, a Transhumanist Response - Part 1
Editing - Part 1 will be combined with part 2 to make one video soon.

By: Adam Ford

View original post here:
David Pearce - Google vs Death - Aging Research, a Transhumanist Response - Part 1 - Video

By: RU Sirius & Paul McEnery

Singularity, 2012: God springs out of a computer to rapture the human race. An enchanted locket transforms a struggling business journalist into a medieval princess. The math-magicians of British Intelligence calculate demons back into the dark. And solar-scale computation just uploads us all into the happy ever after.

Stripped to the high concept, these visions from Charlie Stross are prime geek comfort food. But dont be fooled. Stross stories turn on you, changing up into a vicious scrutiny of raw power and the information economy.

The God of Singularity Sky is really just an Artificial Intelligence, manipulating us all merely to beat the alien competition. The Merchant Princes (from a series of novels by Stross) are just as rapacious as anything on Wall Street, and a downstream parallel universe is just another market to exploit. The Atrocity Archives gives us a gutpunch full of paranoia on the far side of hacking and counterhacking lurks an unspeakable chaos. And for all our engineering genius, Accelerandos paradise is won at the cost of planetary destruction, with humanity cul-de-sacd as our future heads off into the stars without us.

For his latest novel, Halting State (released in June 2008), Stross savages the fantasy worlds we escape into for fun and profit and invites us to peek underneath the surfaces as our chattering gadgets dress up reality with virtual sword-and-sorcery games, all underwritten by oh-so-creative financial instruments.

All of Strosss highly connective pipe-dream superstructures are wide open to the one geopolitical prick that will pop them all like the balloon animals they are. Be warned. Take care of the bottom line, or your second life will cost you the life that counts.

Its no surprise that Stross is a highly controversial figure within Transhumanist circles loved by some for his dense-with-high-concepts takes on themes dear to the movement, loathed by others for what they see as a facile treatment of both ideas and characters. But one thing is certain - Mr. Stross is one SF writer who pays close attention to the entire plethora of post-humanizing changes that are coming on fast. As a satirist, he might be characterized as our Vonnegut, lampooning memetic subcultures that most people dont even know exist.

H+: With biotech, infotech, cognitive science, AI, and so many other sciences and technologies impacting the human situation, it seems that most social and political discourse remains back in the 20th century at best. You talk sometimes about being a post-cyberpunk person. How do you deal with the continued presence of so many pre-cyberpunk people?

CHARLIE STROSS: As William Gibson noted, the future is already here: its just unevenly distributed. Most people run on the normative assumption that life tomorrow will be similar to life today, and dont think about the future much. And Im not going to criticize them for doing so; for 99.9% of the life of our species this has been the case, barring disasters such as plague, war, and famine. Its a good strategy, and periods when it is ignored (such as the millennial ferment that swept Europe around 990 A.D. and didnt die down until 1020 A.D.) tend to be bad times to live.

See the rest here:
Best of H+: The Reluctant Transhumanist - H+ Magazine

The Mormon Transhumanist Association and the Teilhard de Chardin Project have formed an institutional partnership to promote familiarity with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a twentieth century philosopher and Jesuit priest whose life and works continue to inspire modern Transhumanism, an ideological identity that reflects Teilhard de Chardin's observationsthat humanity is approaching a critical "trans-human" stage in our evolution.

The Teilhard de Chardin Project will produce a two-hour television biography, tentatively entitled The Evolution of Teilhard de Chardin, interpreting the life and philosophy of Teilhard, a contemporary of Einstein, and a powerful voice for both evolutionary science and religion in the twentieth century, plus a robust interactive website. Produced by Frank Frost Productions, LLC, the documentary will be accompanied by a multifaceted Internet outreach that provides opportunities for viewers to dialogue with one another and scholars from around the world on topics introduced by Teilhards sweep of ideas. More information is available on the Teilhard de Chardin Project website.

The council of scholar advisors for the project includesStephen R. White, professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University, author of many articles contextualizing Teilhards thought in global education (including Teilhardian Thought, Cyberspace and Educational Organization, Sage Publications, 2013), and member of the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association is an international nonprofit organization that promotes radical flourishing in compassion and creation through technology and religion, as outlined in the Transhumanist Declaration and the Mormon Transhumanist Affirmation. Although we are neither a religious organization nor affiliated with any religious organization, we support our members in their personal religious affiliations, Mormon or otherwise, and encourage them to adapt Transhumanism to their unique situations.

View original post here:
Mormon Transhumanist Association partners with the Teilhard Project

Futurists discuss The Transhumanist Wager
Recording of a London Futurists Hangout On Air, "Futurists discuss The Transhumanist Wager". The G+ version of this video, which shows on the right hand side...

By: David Wood

View original post here:
Futurists discuss The Transhumanist Wager - Video

Transhumanist Agenda, Man Merging With Machine,by Ray Kurzweil Is It Real, Is It Right?
This is what happens when you do not know or believe in God. This is a biblical prediction and should be noted. I don #39;t pretend to be Mr. Religion but even I...

By: ProactivePreppers

The rest is here:
Transhumanist Agenda, Man Merging With Machine,by Ray Kurzweil Is It Real, Is It Right? - Video