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Ep 1: What is Transhumanism?
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
Posted on 2015-07-06 00:00:00
In this first episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin ask the question 'What is Transhumanism?', and then go on to explore the landscape at the intersection of Christianity and Transhumanist thought.
- More about Amy Gaskin and Micah Redding
- The Cold Equations, Amy's first science fiction experience
- Wikipedia's definition of transhumanism
- Transhumanism's conflicted feelings about spirituality
- The history of the word transhumanism
- Dynamic optimism
- Christianity is about resurrection, not escapism
- Heaven is not my home - NT Wright
- Transhumanism and the Christian story
- Humanity+
- The Christian Transhumanist Association
- Further up! Further in!
"Transhumanism is at heart altruistic. You are not working for your own account. It's not about salivating upon hearing of a new technological consumer gadget or even trying to achieve personal immortality. You work for all, for a future with more options, more freedom, more safety, less hunger, less poverty, less death. Ultimately it's about creating a world with more good and less bad in it." - Koen De Paus
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Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
2015-07-06 00:00:00
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Guests
- Kevin Kelly
- NT Wright
- Science Mike McHargue
- David Deutsch
- Aubrey de Grey
- Frank Tipler
- Robin Hanson
- Robert Wright
- James Hughes
- Steve Fuller
- Liz Parrish
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Greg Boyd
- Philip Clayton
- Adam Ericksen
- Christian Piatt
- Paul Wallace
- Derek Flood
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Christopher Benek
- Robert Walden Kurtz
- Calvin Mercer
- Peter Enns
- Shannon Vyff
- Ron Cole-Turner
- Meghan O'Gieblyn
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The Christian Transhumanist Podcast is an editorially independent production of Micah Redding, provided here as a community resource on behalf of the CTA.