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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
Quick overview of biopolitical points of view

MIT Media Lab’s folding CityCar

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Russell Blackford: Freedom of Religion

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I Want a God-Like Brain

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Malcolm Gladwell on Income Inequality: We’re Off the Rails

Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
Author

by Arthur Caplan

From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto On the Freedom Of Form
by Martine Rothblatt

Freedom of Religion and the Secular State
by Russell Blackford

The Olympics: The Basics
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Pastor_Alex on 'I Want a God-Like Brain' (Feb 9, 2012)

Pastor_Alex on 'Automated Cars: Redux' (Feb 9, 2012)

Pastor_Alex on 'Autonomous Transportation for the Year 2030' (Feb 9, 2012)

Peter Wicks on 'We Are All Pirates' (Feb 9, 2012)

Ralph on 'Human GPS Microchipping: Embrace it or ban it?' (Feb 8, 2012)

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Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life

April 29-30, 2007
Uvvy Island, Second Life

Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 10am PST/1pm EST/6pm UK

Uvvy Island, Second Life

James Hughes will present his paper “The Compatibility of Religious and Transhumanist Views of Metaphysics, Suffering, Virtue and Transcendence in an Enhanced Future” (PDF)

Extropia DaSilva, a “transhumanist avatar” who writes some of the best mind expanding stuff about first and second life, the universe and everything, will give a talk in text.

William Sims Bainbridge will speak on the future of religion.

Giulio Prisco will summarize his article/book precis “Engineering Transcendence.”

Lincoln Cannon will speak on behalf of the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

This will be one of the last Uvvy Island events using text chat as the main conversation mode. One or two of the speakers will use relatime video and voice. Participants will ask questions by text chat, and speakers will answer by text, voice or video.