Archive for the ‘transhumanism’ category: Page 112
Mar 12, 2016
Making the world’s first brain-controlled bionic leg
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, electronics, neuroscience, transhumanism
Mar 11, 2016
Why Won’t Sanders, Clinton, Trump and Cruz Discuss Transhumanist Science Issues?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, science, transhumanism
My new Huff Post story asking why the major presidential candidates don’t discuss transhumanist science:
THE BLOG Why Won’t Sanders, Clinton, Trump and Cruz Discuss Transhumanist Science Issues? 03/11/2016 03:49 pm ET Zoltan Istvan US Presidential candidate of Transhumanist Party; Creator of Immortality Bus; Author of #1 bestselling Philosophy novel ‘The Transhumanist Wager’ Image by DonkeyHotey Have y…
Mar 11, 2016
Amputee feels texture with a ‘bionic’ fingertip
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: cyborgs, electronics, transhumanism
Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first person in the world to recognize texture (smoothness vs. roughness) using an artificial “bionic” fingertip surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm. The experimental system was developed by EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and SSSA (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna).
“The stimulation felt almost like what I would feel with my hand,” says Sørensen. “I felt the texture sensations at the tip of the index finger of my phantom hand.”
Mar 9, 2016
This bionic fingertip can restore the sense of touch for amputees
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism
Mar 9, 2016
Bionic fingertip lets amputee feel textures
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism
Cool beans.
Using a bionic fingertip, an amputee for the first time has been able to feel rough and smooth textures in real-time, as though the fingertip were naturally connected to his hand.
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Mar 2, 2016
Never Say Die – SELF/LESS from Science-Fiction to –Fact
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, ethics, health, life extension, neuroscience, robotics/AI, transhumanism
In SELF/LESS, a dying old man (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley) transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). If you’re into immortality, that’s pretty good product packaging, no?
But this thought-provoking psychological thriller also raises fundamental and felicitous ethical questions about extending life beyond its natural boundaries. Postulating the moral and ethical issues that surround mortality have long been defining characteristics of many notable stories within the sci-fi genre. In fact, the Mary Shelley’s age-old novel, Frankenstein, while having little to no direct plot overlaps [with SELF/LESS], it is considered by many to be among the first examples of the science fiction genre.
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Feb 28, 2016
Gene therapy to save the world
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, health, life extension, transhumanism
The most recent Liz talk. According to her in this vid her first test results of telomere length are next month.
Liz Parrish, the Founder and CEO of BioViva Sciences USA Inc, is best known for recently becoming the first person to be treated with gene therapy to reverse aging.
Feb 25, 2016
Zoltan: The transhumanist for President — The Feed
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: electronics, geopolitics, transhumanism
A new 9 minute video on transhumanism and my campaign from The Feed at SBS, one of Australia’s major tv channels. It aired today:
Meet the US Presidential candidate who not only wants to beat Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but — also — death.
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Feb 22, 2016
Terence Mckenna’s ‘cyberdelic’ predictions for Virtual Reality 25 years on
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, cyborgs, life extension, neuroscience, transhumanism, virtual reality
Cannot wait to hear Mckenna’s perspective on BMIs for brain connection to all things digital, and microbots used to extend life as well as bionic body parts.
Famed psychonaut Terence Mckenna envisioned a very radical approach of bridging psychedelics with virtual reality to create a supercharged version of consciousness in which language, or rather the meaning behind what we speak, could be made visual in front of our very eyes.
In Mckenna’s “cyberdelic” future of virtual reality, artists and the revival of art, would be at the forefront of innovation, according to a talk he gave to a German audience in 1991.
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