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Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
President Obama this morning announced funding for a project to map the human brain. The Atlantic Wire explores the ethical implications of this research, and links to other articles (including academic resources) that discuss these issues in more depth. You … Continue reading
Healthcare Marketing Rights
Slate has an interesting article on the somewhat under reported phenomenon of NFL teams selling “healthcare marketing rights.” From “Walk It Off, Champ: Why NFL Team Doctors are Ethically Compromised”: Medical ethics codes expressly forbid conflicts that could place financial … Continue reading
Amour
Scriptwriter and script consultant Barbara Nicolosi reviews the Oscar-nominated French Film Amour, finding it “a dark, draggy, lie.” The journey of the movie is to drag us from our first moral impulse that this is a crime scene, to the … Continue reading
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Singularity Documentary
Anyone interested in where science, medicine, biotechnology, and information technology are headed should be interested in the concept of the singularity. Helpfully, a documentary has just been released that topic. In an interview with The Atlantic, the filmmaker reveals a … Continue reading
The Prospect of Immortality
As you may know, some transhumanists (and others) are interested in cryopreservation as part of their goal of achieving immortality, and if not immortality then greatly extended life span. The hope is that at some point in the future, when … Continue reading
The Prospect of Immortality
As you may know, some transhumanists (and others) are interested in cryopreservation as part of their goal of achieving immortality, and if not immortality then greatly extended life span. The hope is that at some point in the future, when … Continue reading
Rome International Film Festival
I’ve just arrived in Rome, GA for the festival. Anonymous Father’s Day screens in about 45 minutes. Here are a couple of snapshots so far.
Paper Proposal Submitted
“Thank you for submitting your proposal for the 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture.” I entitled my paper, “Transhumanism, Technicism, and Christianity.” My abstract concludes: The paper will examine the cultural situation in which Transhumanism has emerged, Transhumanism itself, … Continue reading
Huxley in 1958
On the occasion of the 118th anniversary of Aldous Huxley’s birth, The Atlantic links to an interview Mike Wallace conducted with the author in 1958. I am fascinated by this on so many levels.