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skefi'a- Epic, cosmic wonders in Stephen Baxter’s Proxima Giulio Prisco
- Cosmic Beings: Transhumanist Deism in Ted Chu’s Cosmic View Giulio Prisco
- Low-level Science fiction: Sci-fi with hard science and a literary slant Clyde DeSouza
- Spike Jonze’s Her – Love in the time of AI Giulio Prisco
- Hangout on Air: Ramez Naam discusses Nexus, Crux, and The Infinite Resource Giulio Prisco
- Summa Technologiae – Lem’s grim, sober Singularity Giulio Prisco
- A P2P Web, courtesy of The Pirate Bay Giulio Prisco
- Lem’s strange aliens, revisited Giulio Prisco
- 2113 (part 5) – Do you want to play a game? Khannea Suntzu
- The Light of Other Days, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Giulio Prisco
VIDEO – January 2014 Online Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
At the Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) Online Discussion Group, 25 January 2014, we discussed plans for presentations at the forthcoming 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association (Salt Like City, April 4), and the movie Her.
We also discussed the creation of an umbrella “Transfigurist Network” for religious transhumanists, to be established as a cooperative framework for collaboration between the MTA, the Christian Transhumanist Association (CTA), and other religious transhumanist associations that may emerge in the future.
The Russian Cosmists
Now a film, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” by George Carey, and a book, “The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers,” by George M. Young, make Russian Cosmism much more accessible to a Western audience.
VIDEO – December 2013 Online Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
The discussion at the Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) Online Discussion Group, 28 December 2013, was again focused on collaboration between the MTA, the Christian Transhumanist Association (CTA), and other religious transhumanist associations that may emerge in the future.
We discussed the creation of an umbrella “Transfigurist Network” for religious transhumanists. This is a continuation of last month online meeting, and a first analysis of the comments and observations received. Your input is requested! If you haven’t participated in the discussion so far, please do!
Catching the light of other days
It is not surprising that some of the best visions of technological resurrection have been proposed by science fiction writers. What is science fiction, after all, but the best way to talk meaningfully of wild speculative, still mysterious science and technology, and their likely impact on our world?
28 December 2013 Online Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
The December 2013 online discussion group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association [MTA] will be on Saturday, December 28, at 10:30am mountain time (9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm UK, 6:30pm EU), in Google+ Hangouts.
Discussion: a ‘Transfigurist Network’ for religious transhumanists
The discussion at the Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) Online Discussion Group, 23 November 2013, was focused on collaboration between the MTA, the Christian Transhumanist Association (CTA), and other religious transhumanist associations that may emerge in the future.
We discussed the creation of an umbrella “Transfigurist Network” for religious transhumanists. Your input is requested! Watch the video below.
CLAWING AT SPECIALNESS: THE SOUL
CLAWING AT SPECIALNESS: THE SOUL.
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling… experience”.
So said Carl Sagan, but what did he mean by this? It is almost certainly a reference to the Copernican revolution and subsequent advances in astronomy, which have served to reveal just how vast and ancient the universe is, and how small, short-lived and insignificant the Earth and the life that crawls, swims and flies over it, is, in comparison.
Blasphemy or words of God?
I recommend to everyone the scientific thriller Blasphemy, by Douglas Preston. A real page turner, this book tells the biggest story: the birth and unstoppable growth of a new scientific religion, perhaps revealed by God himself. This fictional religion, “The Search,” is very, very close to my own.
A Christian Transhumanist Association: moving forward
The discussion at the Mormon Transhumanist Association Online Discussion Group, 26 October 2013, was centered on the establishment of a Christian Transhumanist Association (CTA). Watch the video below.
The CTA has not yet been formally established, but it already has a website and a Facebook Page, launched immediately after the discussion to complement the existing Facebook Group. If you are a Christian and a Transhumanist, or a Christian interested in Transhumanism, or a Transhumanist open to a religious interpretation of our ideas, we warmly encourage you to join.
Zoe Bach’s ‘Quantum Zen’ as a ‘Third Way’ scientific religion
Zoltan Istvan’s bestseller The Transhumanist Wager, often reviewed as a rabid anti-religion manifesto, includes the foundations of a new, Cosmist scientific religion, a “Third Way” alternative to traditional belief based on science, but at the same time able to offer all the benefits of religion.
26 October 2013 Online Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
The October 2013 Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association will be on Saturday, October 26, at 10:30am mountain time (9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm UK, 6:30pm EU), in Google+ Hangouts.
Congratulations to Prof. Higgs, a tolerant atheist
Congratulations to Prof. Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, the theoretical physicist who predicted the Higgs Boson, often nicknamed the “God particle.” Prof. Higgs is an atheist, but a tolerant atheist who respects believers.
