“Come down in nine minutes?” It was Krish. He was always precise about time. My portable hard drive sat on the desk near the door, and I slipped it into the backpack. “I was expecting your bike,” I said when I reached him behind the steering wheel of a tinted Honda. “Not likely. We’d be …...
“With futuristic warfare in mind, India is working to develop robotic soldiers as part of efforts to boost unmanned fighting capabilities, joining a select group of countries in this endeavour. Under the project being undertaken by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), robots would be developed with very high level of intelligence to enable them …...
Buddhism and Jainism believe there is an evolutionary continuity between animals, humans and “gods,” and that all creatures will evolve from animals to a posthuman state. From a Keynote Address delivered at the International Jain Conference at Claremont Lincoln University, August 24-25, 2012. Genetic Enhancement Turning to genetic enhancement we first need to reflect on the …...
2013 Nano by Robin Cook Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: Berkley; Reprint edition (July 2, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0425261344 ISBN-13: 978-0425261347 Abstract A lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the foothills of the Rockies, Nano is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to …...
There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines — straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. But as science advances, these fields are becoming increasingly specialized and interdisciplinary, leading to entirely new avenues of inquiry. Here are 11 emerging scientific fields you should know about 1. Neuroparasitology If you …...
My proposal is that instead of a binary approach to jiva/ajiva, or souled and soulless, the Buddhist and Jain ideas of ensoulment are open to an analog interpretation in line with neuroscience and ethology. From a Keynote Address delivered at the International Jain Conference at Claremont Lincoln University, August 24-25, 2012. The Moral Significance of Harming a Person …...
Buddhists and Jains believe there is moral and evolutionary continuity between animals, humans and “gods,” and that all creatures can evolve from animal to posthuman. This places them closer to the progressive optimist and posthumanist aspects of European Enlightenment thought, than followers of the Abrahamic faiths. The Buddhist emphasis on anatta or no-self is also …...
Does the pursuit of longevity, or even radical longevity, have future in India? The following article will consider this question mainly in ideological, cultural and historical terms, rather than in terms of analyzing current technological and demographic trends. In demographic terms, as was also noted earlier, the life expectancy in India is till relatively low …...
Since the origin of human species, it is our own curiosity which has been the driving force behind the working of our society. That, combined with ingenious properties of imagination, knowledge, free will and emotions can be perceived to act as global glue which unifies human race. This property and human wisdom gave birth to …...
The future, as it exists, is going to be very different from the past. Physicists can say that the one cannot differentiate between the past, and future arrow of time. But, in reality, when an observer makes observations about any stage of development at any instant of time in the history of evolution of this …...
