{"id":29963,"date":"2016-09-08T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/head-transplanting-and-mind-uploading-philosophical-implications-and-potential-social-consequences-of-two-medico-scientific-utopias"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:49:23","slug":"head-transplanting-and-mind-uploading-philosophical-implications-and-potential-social-consequences-of-two-medico-scientific-utopias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/head-transplanting-and-mind-uploading-philosophical-implications-and-potential-social-consequences-of-two-medico-scientific-utopias","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHead-Transplanting\u201d And \u201cMind-Uploading:\u201d Philosophical Implications And Potential Social Consequences of Two Medico-Scientific Utopias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by ROLAND BENEDIKTER, KATJA SIEPMANN, ALEXANDER REYMANN <\/p>\n<p>ABSTRACT. This article discusses the philosophical implications and potential social consequences of two experimental \u2013 and at the present moment still widely speculative \u2013 topics at the intersection between scientific and medical advances, the human body, the human mind, and the globalized health care sector. Head-Transplanting is a chirurgical endeavor envisaged by the HEAVEN project announced to be practically implemented around 2017 and to be available for routine-use around the mid-2020s by a group of internationally as prominent as disputed transplant surgeons. Mind-Uploading is a procedure currently in the first stages of development to create artificial representations of the human brain and its processes in computers and on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addletonacademicpublishers.com\/contents-rcp\/944-volume-16-2017\/2919-head-transplanting-and-mind-uploading-philosophic\">http:\/\/www.addletonacademicpublishers.com\/contents-rcp\/944-v...hilosophic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by ROLAND BENEDIKTER, KATJA SIEPMANN, ALEXANDER REYMANN ABSTRACT. This article discusses the philosophical implications and potential social consequences of two experimental \u2013 and at the present moment still widely speculative \u2013 topics at the intersection between scientific and medical advances, the human body, the human mind, and the globalized health care sector. Head-Transplanting is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}