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Ep 1: What is Transhumanism?

Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin

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Posted on 2015-07-06 00:00:00

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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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