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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
Quick overview of biopolitical points of view


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There’s Nothing Natural About Dying

Who, or what, is a person? Speciesism and Substrate Chauvinism

Does Transhumanism Create New Social Relations?

The Optimism Bias

Are Humans Becoming More or Less Psychopathic?

Driverless Cars Promise Huge Impact in Our Everyday Lives

‪Robot Geminoid F‬

Musings On Robot Sex Dolls and Companions

The Ukrainian “Human Barbie Doll” - Valeria Lukyanova - is this the future of cosmetic enhancement?

Our Reborn Future in Space


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Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future
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by Marshall Brain

The Astrobiological Landscape: Philosophical Foundations of the Study of Cosmic Life
by Milan M. Ćirković

Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
by Arthur Caplan

From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto On the Freedom Of Form
by Martine Rothblatt


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Intomorrow on 'Are Humans Becoming More or Less Psychopathic?' (May 20, 2012)

Christian Corralejo on 'Our Reborn Future in Space' (May 20, 2012)

Christian Corralejo on 'Our Reborn Future in Space' (May 20, 2012)

Stefan Pernar on 'Why Humanists Need to Make the Shift to Post-Atheism' (May 20, 2012)

Dick Pelletier on 'Driverless Cars Promise Huge Impact in Our Everyday Lives' (May 20, 2012)







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Human Enhancement Technologies
and Human Rights


May 26-28, 2006

Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California

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Sponsored by: Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Co-Sponsors: Stanford Program in Ethics in Society, GeneForum, ExtraLife

Laura Colleton J.D.

Harvard Divinity School


Ms. Colleton studied international human rights and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 and Harvard Law School in 2003.  She also worked for a human rights organization in Pristina, Kosovo.  She has written on the abuse of UN power in the provisional Kosovo government as well as restoring humanity after violent ethnic conflict.  She studies bioethics at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Divinity School, and expects to receive a Masters Degree in Theological Studies in 2006.

Health Care Access in the U.S. and the Elusive Line Between Enhancement and Therapy

Biotechnology has made possible both treatments for diseases or disorders and enhancements of human traits, but the line between the two categories is unclear and uncertain.  This paper will explore where that line has been placed, what this means for health care access, and thus where the line should be.

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