Yesterday Micah Redding and I spent a few hours in a fascinating online discussion with Prof. Frank J. Tipler, covering Tipler’s ideas, papers, books, physics (a lot of that) and theology. Watch the full video below.
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Turing Church Online Workshop 2
The Turing Church Online Workshop 2 on Sunday December 11, 2011, explored transhumanist spirituality and “Religion 2.0″, the convergence of science and religion, highly imaginative future science and technologies for resurrection, emerging science and technologies for immortality.
Afterlife? – my very first post to the Extropians list, 1999
Today I found by chance an important bit of personal history: my very first post to the Extropians list, on December 6, 1999. It is interesting to see many of the ideas which I have been thinking and writing about in these 13 years already covered in that first post.
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Interview with Frank. J. Tipler (Nov. 2002)
I copied here this old interview with Frank J. Tipler, published on the Transhumanity Magazine of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity +) in November 2002.
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How to cope with death: the Cosmist ‘Third Way’
Recently on Facebook a friend asked: “Hey, atheist friends, I need your help. I would like to listen and read what do you do when you lose somebody who you loved? I have tried several ways to ease the pain, but it is still there.” He addressed his atheist friends because evidently he didn’t want to hear about a supernatural afterlife. I took the liberty to offer my vision of a natural afterlife following technological resurrection, based on science and engineering.
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Turing Church online workshop 2
On Sunday, December 11, we explored the convergence of religion with highly imaginative future science and technologies in the Turing Church online workshop 2 in teleXLR8, a 3D interactive video conferencing space.
Frank Tipler’s talk at the Turing Church Online Workshop 2
In the picture I am with Frank Tipler, in a preparation meeting for the Turing Church Online Workshop 2.
I am a big Tipler fan, see for example Interview with Frank. J. Tipler (Nov. 2002), and Review of The Physics of Christianity, by Frank Tipler.
Frank gave a great talk at the Workshop (see also this video for the full Q/A session).
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