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  • Vaccinate your life against B.S.O.D – Insure your memories.

    Jun 27, 13 • GeneralNo Comments
    Vaccinate your life against B.S.O.D – Insure your memories.

     …and on the third day he rose again... If we approach the subject from a non theist point of view, what we have is a re-boot. A restore of a previously working “system image”. Can we restore a person to the last known working state prior to system failure? As our Biological (analog) life get’s …...

  • A Transhumanist’s Journey To Becoming Gods, Angels, and Ghosts

    Jun 27, 13 • General2 Comments
    A Transhumanist’s Journey To Becoming Gods, Angels, and Ghosts

    At the end of the documentary Transcendent Man, Ray Kurzweil says, “Does God exist? Well, not yet.” I agree. It certainly brings up a topic that isn’t easily understood, nor well received by those dictated under dogmatic belief systems. Does God exist? Not yet. Do angels exist? Not yet. Do ghosts exist? Not yet. These …...

  • Evolution and it’s Future designed by Humanity

    Jun 22, 13 • GeneralNo Comments
    Evolution and it’s Future designed by Humanity

    The Evolution theory from Charles Darwin describes how life evolves into complex form by the process of Natural Selection. This process started around approximately 3.8 billion years ago in the vast diversity of the nature on the Earth. This process is unintelligent, so there is no higher intelligent creature that drive this process. About 500 …...

  • Memories With Maya – An Excerpt from Book by Clyde DeSouza

    Jun 21, 13 • Book ExcerptNo Comments
    Memories With Maya – An Excerpt from Book by Clyde DeSouza

    “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 …...

  • Robotic Soldiers to Replace Humans Soldiers in India?

    Jun 12, 13 • General, Robotics2 Comments
    Robotic Soldiers to Replace Humans Soldiers in India?

    “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 …...

  • How Do We Care For Future People?
 Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 3)

    Jun 11, 13 • General1 Comment
    How Do We Care For Future People?
 Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 3)

    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 …...

  • Fiction Books Related to Transhumanism

    Jun 8, 13 • Book List, General2 Comments
    Fiction Books Related to Transhumanism

    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 …...

  • 11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About

    Jun 5, 13 • GeneralNo Comments
    11 Emerging Scientific Fields That Everyone Should Know About

    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 …...

  • How Do We Care For Future People? Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 2)

    Jun 5, 13 • General3 Comments
    How Do We Care For Future People? Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 2)

    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 …...

  • How Do We Care For Future People?
 Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 1)

    Jun 4, 13 • General2 Comments
    How Do We Care For Future People?
 Buddhist and Jain Ideas for Reproductive Ethics (Part 1)

    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 …...