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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
Author
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

George Dvorsky

Associate Editor, Betterhumans


George Dvorsky is the Deputy-Editor of Betterhumans, co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association, and the producer of Sentient Developments blog and podcast. Mr. Dvorsky served as conference chair for TransVision 2004, the WTA’s annual conference.

All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting non-human animals

As the potential for enhancement technologies migrates from the theoretical to the practical, a difficult and important decision will be imposed upon human civilization, namely the issue as to whether or not we are morally obligated to biologically enhance non-human animals and bring them along with us into advanced postbiological existence. There will be no middle road that we can take; humanity will either have to leave animals in their current state of nature or bring as many sentient creatures along into a posthuman future. A strong case can be made that life and civilizations on Earth have already been following this general tendency and that animal uplift will be a logical and reasonable developmental stage along this continuum of progress. But tendency does not imply right; more properly, given the potential expanse of legal personhood status to other sentient species, it will follow that what is good and desirable for Homo sapiens will also be good and desirable for other sapient species. If it can be shown that enhancement and postbiological existence is good and desirable for humans, and conversely that ongoing existence in a Darwinian state of nature is inherently undesirable, then we can assume that we have both the moral imperative and consent to uplift non-human animals.

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