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Transhumanism calendar of events, Transhumanist Groups and Contacts in Your Area, Transhumanism and disability, Transhumanism and Feminism, Transhumanism related papers, Transhumanism links, Extension of Life/Aging, Bionics (Eyes, Cochlear Implants, Tracking devices, Cognitive Sciences/AI)
Transhumanism calendar of events
Transhumanist Groups and Contacts in Your Area
Transumanism Syllabi
Transhumanism and disability
Transhumanism and Feminism
Transhumanism and Euthanasia
Transhumanism related papers
- transhumanism
papers NEW
- Human
Enhancement and the Principle of Potential Plentitude by Dr. Mark Walker
- Better
Health through Democratic Transhumanism It's not enough to just fix our
ailing and broken parts. We need democracy and technology to be all that we
can be By James Hughes 6/2/2003In its founding charter, the World Health Organization
defines the goal of health as "a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
This is a wonderfully inclusive definition, but what does physical, mental
and social well-being entail? Besides good friends, a faithful dog and sunshine,
what life attributes universally contribute to physical, mental and social
well-being? On my shortlist are these four: Control over the body, longevity,
being happier and being smarter. NEW
- democratic
Transhumanism 2.0 NEW
- Scientopica
News
- Introduction
to Transhumanism
- What is Transhumanism?
Why is a Transhumanist?
- Morphological
Freedom? Why We not just Want it, but Need it
- More
on \A Cyborg Unplugged\
- A Transhumanist
Perspective on Human Genetic Enhancements Nick Bostrum
- Embracing Change
with All Four Arms Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Post-Humanist
Defense of Genetic Engineering
- Genetically
enhanced humans to come, say DNA pioneers
- The
Future of Life by Ray Kurzweil
- Is Freedom Just Another
Word for Random Genes? No. Genetic Engineering Offers Greater Human Freedom,
Not Less Reason April 2003
- Democratic
transhumanism is the result of being committed to two general sets of values:
the democratic tradition with its val
- Intelligence,
Mind and Self-Modification: Defining the Core Concepts of AI Ben Goertzel
March 2002
- Anders Transhuman PageTranshumanism
is a philosophy that humanity can, and should, strive to higher levels, both
physically, mentally and socially. It encourages research into such areas
as life extension, cryonics, nanotechnology, physical and mental enhancements,
uploading human consciousness into computers and megascale engineering.
- Intelligence
AmplificationOne of the most promising transhumanist goals is to increase
the mental abilities of humans to new levels. This can be done using various
cognition enhancing drugs (nootropics), bionic enhancements, uploading, information
management strategies or ancient methods like mnemonics, training or efficient
thinking.
- UploadingUploading
is the (so far hypothetical) process of transferring the mental structure
and consciousness of a person to an external carrier, like a computer. This
would make it possible to completely avoid biological deterioration (aging,
damage), allow the creation of backup copies of the mind, very profound modifications
and postbiological existence.
- Physical EnhancementWe
are our bodies, like it or not. Most transhumanists want to modify their bodies
in some way, ranging from minor cosmetic improvements and better health to
major re-engineering (and beyond, to transbiomorphosis). This is not a
denial of the body, rather a celebration of its potential and flexibility.
- Trans- and Post-humanity
If some of the techniques discussed on the other pages will work, the changes
will be profound in all areas. So far most technological and cultural changes
have not really changed the "Human Condition" itself. The changes in psychology,
culture, social systems and science by the step from current humanity to transhumanity
and eventual
posthumanity will be staggering, and perhaps even impossible for us to presently
understand (see the Singularity Page).
- BiotechnologyBiotechnology
includes all kinds of technology based on biological processes, the design
of new organisms, interfacing life and technology and management of ecology
and environment. From a transhuman perspective it appears likely that in
time the line between machines and living beings will blur and eventually
vanish, making us part of a bionic ecology.
- Uploading --
A Little Wishful Fiction at MROB
- DOWNLOAD YOUR
BRAIN
- Genetic
Enhancements
Transhumanism links
-
Transhumanist Chats/radio/Journals
- Transhumanity Transhumanity
magazine
- Journal of Evolution and Technology
- ExtroTech Future
Webring
- Yahoo! Groups : TransCentralA
meeting place for Transhumanists in Chicagoland and the surrounding
Midwest, including Extropians and Singulatarians, to plan events and discuss
local happenings. Membership in this group is also open to anyone interested
in exploring Transhuman ideas.
Two of the goals of this new group are to become an affiliate organization
of the WTA (World Tranhumanism Association) and to initiate monthly meetings.
A definition of Transhumanism is at http://transhumanism.org/ and a comprehensive
paper by Dr. James Hughes, WTA Secretary, titled "The Politics of Transhumanism"
is at http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm
- Changesurfer Radio
- Yahoo! Groups : wta-talkThis
list is for all members of the World Transhumanist Association to discuss
topics relevant to transhumanism, and the activities of the WTA. Transhumanism
is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating the possibilities
for overcoming biological limitations through technological progress. Transhumanists
seek to expand technological opportunities for people to live longer and healthier
lives and to enhance their intellectual, physical, and emotional capacities..
- Oh
Transhumanity
Organisations
NEWS
Extension of Life/Aging/Cryonics
Reports/Article
Links
Bionics
- Cyborg Liberation
Front
- 100 Meter World
Record is Broken
- New
Advance In Fuel Cell Technology May Help Power Medical Implants
- Artificial
Heart Could Be Approved for Wider Use
- Destination:
CyborgMoving from flesh to silicon, humanity is transforming itself. Here's
why you should welcome our cybernetic future
- "James Partridge, chief
executive of Changing Faces, a nonprofitorganization for those who have
severe facial deformities, was quoted as saying that the prospect of face
transplants could hinder people's
ability 'to face their disfigurement with confidence.'" as quoted in
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09FACE.html March 9, 2003 Making
Faces
By CHARLES SIEBERT
- DermaDoctor
Oct. 2002
Proteins such as erythropoietin and interferon are great at fighting disease,
but it’s difficult to deliver them with conventional needles or
implanted pumps. Medgenics, in Misgav, Israel, has come up with an alternative:
a “biopump,” made from a patient’s own skin,
that can painlessly produce and deliver just the right amount of a protein
drug. Medgenics takes a matchstick-sized strip of the patient’s
skin and cuts it into pieces called micro-organs, about 400 micrometers across.
It then genetically engineers the micro-organs to produce the protein and
monitors its daily production. After a week, the company implants just enough
of the micro-organs in the patient to deliver the right dose. The biopump
.....
- Opto-bionics
Bionic eyes
- The American Society for Artificial Internal
Organs
- Futuristic System Brings
Vision to Blind June 13 2002
- the world first artificial heart
patient
- Cyborgization
Improves Lives
- Thought-Controlled
Prosthetics?
- THE SHADOW ROBOT
COMPANY has developed the worlds most advanced dextrous Hand. NEW
- Darpa
To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine InterfacesDevices including
"neuroprosthetic" limbs for paralyzed people and "neurorobots" controlled
by brain signals from human operators could be the ultimate applications of
brain-machine interface technologies developed under a $26 million contract
to Duke University sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA). NEW
Eyes
Walking
Cochlear Implants
- Implants
are replacing sign language among deaf kids NEW
- Listserve on the
cochlear implant lawsuit in USA
- Nanotology a whole webpage on nano
as it relates to hearing NEW
- Deaf Liberation Front
- Will this Device put Cochlear
Implant Industry out of Business? NEW
- Please click on the links
for more information about action at the 7thInternational Cochlear Implant
Conference 2002, from September 4-6th 2002. Somelinks critical of cochlear
implants
- Mom can
refuse sons' cochlear implants, says court
- Implant
puts music in his life
- Symphony
of SoundAfter 29 Silent Years, Ex-Miss America Hears Again
- NASA
engineer recognized for 'medical marvel'
-
Tracking devices
- RFID journal
- RFID news
- Association for automatic
identification and mobility
- Stop RFID
- RFID.INC
- Electronic Privacy Information Centre
- RFID Hack
Could Allow Retail Fraud e-week Hachman 29th. July 2004
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- THe RFId weblog
- Schoolchildren
to be RFID-chipped July 08 2004 by Jo Best Japanese authorities decide
tracking is best way to protect kids
- The
trouble with RFID
- Another RFID blog
- RFID
users say no privacy law needed
- GPS
implant designed for humans 'tested'
- Benetton backs off
RFID deployment The use of RFID chips in clothing to discourage theft
took it on the chin Friday (April 4) when a major international clothing chain
said it is not using the devices in its products The Italian company Benetton
said in a release that it "is currently analyzing RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) technology to evaluate its
technical characteristics and ... no feasibility studies have yet been undertaken
with a view to the possible industrial introduction of this technology."
The surprise announcement came just two weeks after Philips announced that
it would embed its RFID chips into the labels of every new garment bearing
Benetton's Sisley brand name. The semiconductor maker estimated it would ship
15 million RFID chips, based on its I.Code integrated circuits, for
that application.
- Would
you microchip your child? The Guardian Wednesday September 4, 2002
- Chip
implants 'become part of you'
- ID Chip's
Controversial Approval Oct 23rd 2002
- Implantable
Chip, On Sale Now Oct 25 2002
- Combining
micro- and nano-technology, the network will consist of interactive, highly
miniaturized, autonomous sensors
- Have
you seen that ad everyone's talking about? The one with the perky teenager
and her caring mother discussing her new implant
- The
future is gaining on us ... have hope
- Sensors
gone wild
- The Commercialization
of Microsensor Motes
Brain Implants/Neuroengineering/Cognitive and Neurosciences
- Couples'
nervous system linked by implants in limbs 06.07.2004 By SIMON COLLINS,
science reporter NEW When Kevin Warwick lifted his finger, his wife
Irena felt as if a bolt of lightning ran down her palm and into her own finger.
In what they billed as the first direct link between nervous systems,
the couple had electrodes surgically implanted in their arms and linked by
radio signals to a computer. Blindfolded for the experiment, they could feel
when their spouse's finger moved. "For me, it was like my wife communicating
with me," Dr Warwick said in Auckland yesterday en route to Dunedin's
science festival.
- cyberkinetics NEW
BrainGate™ Neural Interface System: First Clinical Trial Launched Cyberkinetics'
first clinical product is the BrainGate™ Neural Interface System. Based on
more than ten years of development at Brown University, the BrainGate™ System
is intended to provide severely disabled people with a permanent, direct and
reliable interface to a personal computer. The Company has initiated a pilot
(feasibility) clinical trial of the BrainGate ™ System in up to five severely
disabled people unable to use their hands. The implant is designed to allow
signals from the motor cortex to be collected, processed and analyzed, eventually
producing an interface with a personal computer. In this way, the BrainGate™
System has the potential to afford people the opportunity to use the computer
as a gateway to communicate and control assistive devices in their environment.
- Brain
Gate powerpoint presentation 2004
- Cyberkinetics
first clinical trial of brain gate NEW Participants in
the first phase of the clinical study must be unable to use their hands due
to a spinal cord injury, stroke, or muscular dystrophy. In addition, clinical
trial participants must be permanent residents in the greater Boston/Providence
area.
- Instant
neural control of a movement signal. Nature. 2002 Mar 14;416(6877):141-2
NEW
- Mind
over Machine Feb. 2004 NEW
- The Status of Brain-Machine
Interfaces jan.16th. 2004 NEW
- Defense
Department funding brain-machine work NEW
- Rat-brained
robot does distant art NEW
- Brains
can have wireless upgrades: NEW
- Monkey's
brain signals control 'third arm NEW
- Snail
Brain Merged with Microchip NEW
- Human Assisted
Neural Devices NEW
- Touch
DFAR 398
- Is
Better Best?A noted ethicist argues in favor of brain enhancement
By Arthur L. Caplan Scientific American; Sep2003, Vol. 289 Issue 3,
p104
- neurotechnology and neuroethics
- Ultimate
Self-ImprovementThe brain is still an enigma. But that won't stop us from
trying to
enhance mental functioning
- The brain
of the futureAn Atlanta neuroscientist has wired the human brain to a
computer. The
results are fascinating and frightening.
- Japan will create brains
in 20 years
- Total Recall The
future of memory. By David Plotz
- First European
School on Neuroengineering Massimo Grattarola Venice 16-20 June 2003
- Georgia Tech : Laboratory For Neuroengineering
- New
'Brain Fingerprinting' Could Help Solve Crimes
- Counterbalance
Meta Library The Cognitive and Neurosciences
- The
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
- Ethical Assessment
of Implantable Brain ChipsEllen M. McGee and G. Q. Maguire, Jr.
- The World's
First Brain Prosthesis New Scientist issue: 15th March 2003 NEW
- Building
a Bridge to the BrainResearchers are close to breakthroughs in neural
interfaces, meaning we could soon mesh our minds with machines NEW
- RESEARCH INTERESTS RELATED
TO USCBP Berger Hippocampus NEW
- Brain
implant may restore memory Berger NEW
- Dynamic
synapse for signal processing in neural networks one of Bergers patents
NEW
- Experimental
implant under scalp zaps away headachesNEW
- Mapping the
mind
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND HUMAN NATUREby Charles T. Rubin
Some of the smartest people in artificial intelligence want to make human
beings extinct—by replacing the body with an unlimited life of networked
intelligence. Charles Rubin takes a critical look at this “extinctionist
project”—what it is, what it means, and where it is heading. NEW
- Workshop on Cognitive
Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions During IJCAI'2003 9-11 August,
2003. Acapulco, Mexico
- AI companies database
from Nanotechnologies Industries
- Quantum Laser Turns
Electron Wave Into Memory
- The New AI: General
& Sound & Relevant for Physics
- Schmidhuber and AI
- Cognitive
Dissident
- Human
face of 'androgynoid'
- The
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
- Rat neuron cells
control new robot 18th Dec 2002
- Moving
ThoughtsMoving Thoughts Scientists Study Brain Implants to Control PCs,
Artificial Limbs
- Machine
that reads minds gives disabled hope
- New
advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as
they're told to, when that commercial comes on. Sept. 30th 2002
- Inventor foresees
implanted sensors aiding brain functionsSeptember 26, 2002
- New
research adds to understanding of conscious awareness
- Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial
intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking'
to everyone who comes along.
- Beyond Human - New Age
Of Cyborgs And Androids,
- Dalai Lama On Buddhism
And Artifical Intelligence
- Virtual humans
edge closer
PatentsPatents
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