The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays

This was from the mailing list of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Quite a frightening list of chapter titles when I first read it. The future will be stranger than we think, but now that I think about it, maybe the future will just be normal, because it seems to be kind of normal now. Isn't that strange?: http://ieet.org/

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The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays  (2013) by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More Table of Contents Part I Roots and Core Themes 1 The Philosophy of Transhumanism, Max More 2 Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts & Design into the Discussion of Transhumanism, Natasha Vita-More* 3 Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up, Nick Bostrom* 4 Transhumanist Declaration (2012), Various 5 Morphological Freedom – Why We Not Just Want It, but Need It, Anders Sandberg Part II Human Enhancement: The Somatic Sphere 6 Welcome to the Future of Medicine, Robert A. Freitas Jr. 7 Life Expansion Media, Natasha Vita-More* 8 The Hybronaut Affair: A Ménage of Art, Technology, and Science, Laura Beloff 9 Transavatars, William Sims Bainbridge* 10 Alternative Biologies, Rachel Armstrong Part III Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere 11 Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind, Andy Clark 12 Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, Ben Goertzel* 13 Intelligent Information Filters and Enhanced Reality, Alexander “Sasha” Chislenko 14 Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds, Randal A. Koene 15 Uploading, Ralph C. Merkle Part IV Core Technologies 16 Why Freud Was the First Good AI Theorist, Marvin Minsky 17 Pigs in Cyberspace, Hans Moravec 18 Nanocomputers, J. Storrs Hall 19 Immortalist Fictions and Strategies, Michael R. Rose 20 Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler Part V Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death 21 The Curate’s Egg of Anti-Anti-Aging Bioethics, Aubrey de Grey* 22 Medical Time Travel, Brian Wowk 23 Transhumanism and Personal Identity,James Hughes* 24 Transcendent Engineering, Giulio Prisco* Part VI Enhanced Decision-Making 25 Idea Futures: Encouraging an Honest Consensus, Robin Hanson 26 The Proactionary Principle: Optimizing Technological Outcomes, Max More 27 The Open Society and Its Media, Mark S. Miller, with E. Dean Tribble, Ravi Pandya, and Marc Stiegler Part VII Biopolitics and Policy 28 Performance Enhancement and Legal Theory: An Interview with Professor Michael H. Shapiro 29 Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital, Andy Miah* 30 The Battle for the Future, Gregory Stock 31 Mind is Deeper Than Matter: Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Freedom of Form, Martine Rothblatt* 32 For Enhancing People, Ronald Bailey 33 Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right?,Patrick D. Hopkins* 34 Freedom by Design: Transhumanist Values and Cognitive Liberty, Wrye Sententia* Part VIII Future Trajectories: Singularity 35 Technological Singularity, Vernor Vinge 36 An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity, Anders Sandberg 37 A Critical Discussion of Vinge’s Singularity Concept, David Brin*, Damien Broderick, Nick Bostrom, Alexander “Sasha” Chislenko, Robin Hanson, Max More, Michael Nielsen, and Anders Sandberg Part IX The World’s Most Dangerous Idea 38 The Great Transition: Ideas and Anxieties,Russell Blackford* 39 Trans and Post, Damien Broderick 40 Back to Nature II: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, Roy Ascott 41 A Letter to Mother Nature, Max More 42 Progress and Relinquishment, Ray Kurzweil *IEET Fellow, Scholar or Staff