In her new book, Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, offers what Bruce Jennings of Vanderbilt ...
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie – being able to "upload" our minds to computers to live on after we die, to freeze our bodies only to bring them back in the future, or to pop pills to ...
The Holy Father asserted that only the resurrection of Christ ‘is capable of illuminating the mystery of death to its full extent.’ ...
Many influential figures hope that developments in brain-computer interfaces, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and genetic engineering will usher in a new transhumanist era. But what exactly is ...
In his new book “Integral Transhumanism,” Spanish priest Ricardo Mejía Fernández examines the transhumanist movement as “a technological extension of traditional humanism.” According to the definition ...
Transhumanism is a contemporary worldview whose proponents seek to radically extend human life and grant humans enhancements in an effort to render them as powerful as possible. The first-ever ...
The gods of old are gone from this world, replaced by smartphones and touchscreens and social media. These are the new gods, the ones to which we bow down. Instead of putting trust in a higher reality ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. Transhumanism (also abbreviated as H+) is a philosophical ...
In a compelling webseries from 2012 entitled H+, we were introduced to a future world where much of the population has a hi-tech implant, allowing individuals a direct neural interface with the ...