As We May Think
posthuman | transhuman | extropian
perception | postulation | prognostication
Monday, August 28, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
a threat to the godspell?
Beloved, let us pray that it's true.
Highlight: "We are not faced with an endless array of doctrinal variants from which we can pick and choose." -- R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
Hey genius moron, HOW MANY HUNDREDS of SECTS claim a stake in christianity?
It's either something like 36,000, worldwide, according to this esteemed web authority.
Or over 1,000 Christian faith groups in North America, according to The Tolerant:
- Into three or four meta-groups (e.g. Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican),
- By "wing" (e.g. conservative, mainline, and liberal),
- By theological belief system (Calvinism, Arminianism, etc.)
- By religious family, (Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, etc.), and
- By denomination.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Getting Evolution Up to Speed
"New evidence suggests humans are evolving more rapidly -- and more recently -- than most people thought possible. But for some radical evolutionists, Homo sapiens isn't morphing quickly enough." Wired News
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Human Enhancement Technologies Conference
May 26-28, 2006
Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California
Organized by: Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Transhumanism: the next stage in human evolution?
MP3 of a speech by Dr Nick Bostrom, IEET Chairman and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. The speech was given on March 22, 2006 in London to the Royal Society. The meeting was chaired by Robert Pepperell, University of Plymouth and at the University of Wales College, Newport, UK.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Lab Grows Bladders From Cells of Patients
"It is the first time a complex human organ like the bladder has been mostly replaced with tissue grown from a patient's own cells. Only simpler tissues — skin, bone, and cartilage — have been lab-grown and transplanted in the past."Yahoo! News
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Tomorrow's People: The Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement
The subject of the recent Forum 2006 at Said Business School, complete with archived webcasts and active discussion board.