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Transhumanism

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. Transhumanism is the thesis that we human beings² can – in principle at least – transcend our animal³ nature and escape or at least augment – in whole or part – our animal bodies⁴.
  2. The movement hopes – amongst other things – to extend our lifespans – either considerably or indefinitely.
  3. One particular strand of this hope is to escape our mortal bodies altogether by “uploading⁵ ourselves” to a digital computer⁶.
  4. Of course, there’s lots more to the movement, especially with somatic and mental augmentation to expedite our evolutionary⁷ progress via Cyborgisation⁸.
  5. I’m very doubtful about the possibility – practical or theoretical – of most of these aims, as well as their desirability. However, while this topic is on the borders of sci-fi, it is a challenge to animalism⁹ in that it presupposes that “we¹⁰” can transcend our biological origins¹¹ in some way or other.
  6. The premier transhumanist of my acquaintance is Nick Bostrom. He has also argued that we might be (and indeed probably are) living in a computer¹² simulation. See:-
     1. "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?",
     2. "Weatherson (Brian) - Are You a Sim?", and
     3. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Simulation Argument: Reply to Weatherson".
        
  7. A light-hearted introductions to the ideas and personalities are:-
     1. "O'Connell (Mark) - To be a Machine", and
     2. "Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
        
  8. And the main text for this topic is "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - The Transhumanist Reader". It’s probably best to start with the Introductions to the book’s nine Parts.
  9. Enough to say here that I’m not sympathetic to these aims, nor to the possibility of Uploading¹³, even in principle.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. While the whole of "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - The Transhumanist Reader" is interesting, the papers – from a quick look – that are most germane to my Thesis have been segregated in the reading list below.
  2. This topic connects to a number of related items:-
     1. Androids¹⁴,
     2. Chimera¹⁵,
     3. Cyborgs¹⁶,
     4. Non-Human Persons¹⁷
     5. Superintelligence¹⁸
     6. The Singularity¹⁹
     7. Teletransportation²⁰,
     → and maybe others …

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", 2003, No Abstract
  2. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Simulation Argument: Reply to Weatherson", 2005, Internal PDF Link
  3. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - The Transhumanist Reader", 2013, Book, Read = 6%
  4. "O'Connell (Mark) - To be a Machine", 2017, Book, Read
  5. "Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", 2018, Book, Read
  6. "Weatherson (Brian) - Are You a Sim?", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
• For a page of Links²¹ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read²², include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Aeon - Video - Connecting the human body to the outside world", 2023, External Link
    2. "Aeon - Video - Could we have babies in space?", 2023, External Link
    3. "Aeon - Video - Go incredibly fast", 2024, External Link
    4. "Aeon - Video - Hacking enlightenment", 2021, External Link
    5. "Aeon - Video - Is our attention for sale?", 2020, External Link
    6. "Aeon - Video - Our ark", 2023, External Link
    7. "Aeon - Video - Soft awareness", 2020, External Link
    8. "Andersen (Ross) - Exodus", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Andersen (Ross) - Omens", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Aronson (Polina) & Duportail (Judith) - The quantified heart", 2018, External Link
    11. "Ball (Philip) - Sim ethics", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Ball (Philip) - The final ethical frontier", 2023, External Link
    13. "Banks (Jennifer) - What awaits us?", 2024, External Link
    14. "Buckingham (Angela) - Murder in virtual reality should be illegal", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Burri (Susanne) & Robillard (Michael) - Why banning autonomous killer robots wouldn’t solve anything", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Cave (Stephen) - Frozen dead guys", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Chatfield (Tom) - Automated ethics", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence) - Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality", 2019, External Link, Footnote₂₃
    19. "Clay (Alexa) - Growing up alien", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Colebrook (Claire) - End-times for humanity", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Davies (Sally) - Women’s minds matter", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Delistraty (Cody) - Drugs du jour", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    23. "Deutsch (David) - Creative blocks", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Dickey (Colin) - A fault in our design", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Dingemanse (Mark) - The space between our heads", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Foroohar (Rana) - Video - How Big Tech betrayed us", 2021, External Link
    27. "Francis (Matthew) - Is this life real?", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    28. "Frank (Adam) - Alien life is no joke", 2024, External Link
    29. "Fry (Hannah) - Video - Should computers run the world?", 2021, External Link
    30. "Gifford (Sheyna) - Life on Mars", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Graziano (Michael) - Endless fun", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Green (Jaime) - Uncertain contact", 2023, External Link
    33. "Greene (Kate) - Planet boredom", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Houston (Catriona) - Remote control of the brain is coming: how will we use it?", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Jaekl (Philip) - Am I my connectome?", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Jaekl (Philip) - In Cold Blood", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Jones (Christopher) - New tech only benefits the elite until the people demand more", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    38. "Krakauer (David C.) - At the limits of thought", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    39. "Lähde (Ville) - Decoupling", 2024
    40. "Lähde (Ville) - The polycrisis", 2023
    41. "Lindsay (Grace) - Planes don’t flap their wings: does AI work like a brain?", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Marsa (Linda) - The longevity gap", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Mascaro (Joe) - To save Earth, go to Mars", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    44. "McGlokin (Mitch) - Aeon - Video - Forever", 2022, External Link
    45. "Medlock (Ben) - The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    46. "Minerva (Francesca) & Rorheim (Adrian) - What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    47. "Morus (Iwan Rhys) - Supermensch", 2020, External Link
    48. "Nicholson (Arwen E.) & Haywood (Raphaelle D.) - There’s no planet B", 2023, External Link
    49. "Olson (Jay) - Capturing the cosmos", 2024, External Link
    50. "Paik (Jamie) - Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    51. "Pessoa (Luiz) - Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    52. "Poole (Steven) - The human race", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    53. "Price (Huw) - Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    54. "Rose (Hilary) & Rose (Steven) - Prometheus Inc", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    55. "Scharf (Caleb) - Where do minds belong?", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    56. "Schwitzgebel (Eric) - We have greater moral obligations to robots than to humans", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    57. "Sepkoski (David) - What a fossil revolution reveals about the history of ‘big data’", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    58. "Shostak (Seth) - Video - Further - Seth Shostak", 2016, External Link
    59. "Singler (Beth) - fAIth", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    60. "Stavrinaki (Maria) - Prehistory in the atomic age", 2024, External Link
    61. "Stinson (Catherine) - Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    62. "Wareham (Christopher) - How can life-extending treatments be available for all?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    63. "Webb (Claire Isabel) - Cosmic vision", 2023, External Link
    64. "Zimmerman (Jess) - Young blood", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Allen (Nick) - Opening up the real-life X-files", 2021
    2. "Andersen (Ross) - What Happens If China Makes First Contact?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Chalmers (David) - The Matrix as Metaphysics", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Christian (Brian) - The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer", 2011, Book
    6. "Collins (Barry) - Can AI Solve Chess's Stalemate", 2022
    7. "Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue", 2014
    8. "Frary (Mark) - Beyond Repair"
    9. "Grossman (Lev), Kurzweil (Ray) - 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal", 2011, Write-Up Note²⁴, Annotations
    10. "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order"
    11. "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow", 2017, Book
    12. "Hawthorne (John X.) - Are You Ready For The Cyborg Technology Coming In 2021?", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Jones (D. Gareth) - A Christian Perspective on Human Enhancement", 2010, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Kobie (Nicole) - Neuralink: an old idea that could be the future of medicine"
    15. "Kobie (Nicole) - Quantum Supremacy is here - So what?", 2020
    16. "Kobie (Nicole) - The risks of the generative AI gold rush"
    17. "Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric) - Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands", 2014, External Link
    18. "Midgley (Mary) - Biotechnology and Monstrosity: Why We Should Pay Attention to the 'Yuk Factor'", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    19. "O'Connell (Mark) - To be a Machine", 2017, Book
    20. "Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc. - Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 1", 2018, External Link
    21. "Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc. - Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 2", 2018, External Link
    22. "Regis (Ed) - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge", 1991, Book
    23. "Shipley (G.J.) - Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs'", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Silver (Albert) - The future is here – AlphaZero learns chess", 2017, External Link
    25. "Simon-Lewis (Alexandra) - Is it dangerous to recreate flawed human morality in machines?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    26. "Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", 2018, Book
    27. "The Week, Botsman (Rachel) - Big data meets Big Brother", 2017, Internal PDF Link
    28. "The Week, Lucas (Louise) & Feng (Emily) - Inside China's Surveillance State", 2018, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Tillson (John) - Imagine you could insert knowledge into your mind: should you?", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Wyatt (John) - Artificial intelligence and simulated relationships", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • Core Text:
    1. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - The Transhumanist Reader", 2013, Book, Read = 6%
    2. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Biopolitics and Policy - Introduction", 2013, Read = 133%
    3. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Core Technologies - Introduction", 2013, Read = 133%
    4. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death - Introduction", 2013, Read = 100%
    5. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Enhanced Decision-Making - Introduction", 2013, Read = 100%
    6. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Future Trajectories: Singularity - Introduction", 2013, Read = 167%
    7. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere - Introduction", 2013, Read = 167%
    8. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Human Enhancement: The Somatic Sphere - Introduction", 2013, Read = 100%
    9. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Roots and Core Themes - Introduction", 2013, Read = 233%
    10. "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea - Introduction", 2013, Read = 100%
  • Core Text - Papers:
    1. "Bostrom (Nick) - Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up", 2013
    2. "Brin (David), Broderick (Damien), Bostrom (Nick), Chislenko (Alexander), Hanson (Robin), More (Max), Etc. - A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept", 2013
    3. "Broderick (Damien) - Trans and Post", 2013
    4. "Clark (Andy) - Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind", 2013
    5. "Goertzel (Ben) - Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity", 2013
    6. "Hall (J. Storrs) - Nanocomputers", 2013
    7. "Hughes (James) - Transhumanism and Personal Identity", 2013
    8. "Koene (Randal A.) - Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds", 2013
    9. "Kurzweil (Ray) & Drexler (K. Eric) - Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler", 2013
    10. "Merkle (Ralph C.) - Uploading", 2013
    11. "Moravec (Hans) - Pigs in Cyberspace", 2013
    12. "More (Max) - A Letter to Mother Nature", 2013
    13. "More (Max) - The Philosophy of Transhumanism", 2013
    14. "Prisco (Giulio) - Transcendent Engineering", 2013
    15. "Rose (Michael R.) - Immortalist Fictions and Strategies", 2013
    16. "Sandberg (Anders) & Bostrom (Nick) - Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap", 2008, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Vinge (Vernor) - Technological Singularity", 2013, No Abstract
  • General:
    1. "Agar (Nicholas) - Enhancing Humananity", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    2. "Agar (Nicholas) - Whereto Transhumanism?: The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    3. "Alexander (Denis) - Enhancing humans or a new creation?", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    4. "Alexander (Denis) - Healing, enhancement and the human future", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    5. "Anton (Roman) - Re-evaluation of artificial intelligence engine alpha zero", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    6. "Awad (Edmond), Etc. - The Moral Machine experiment", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    7. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    8. "Ball (Matthew ) - The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    9. "Barazzetti (Gaia) & Reichlin (Massimo) - Life Extension and Personal Identity", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
    10. "Bekh (Olena) & Dingley (James) - Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course", 2012, Book, Read = 12%
    11. "Binstock (Robert H.) - Anti-Aging Medicine and Research: A Realm of Conflict and Profound Societal Implications", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    12. "Boloni (Ladislau) - From the philosophy of personal identity to the laws of agent societies", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    13. "Boorse (Dorothy) - Anti-Aging: Radical Longevity, Environmental Impacts, and Christian Theology", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    14. "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", 2003, No Abstract
    15. "Bostrom (Nick) - Dignity and Enhancement", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    16. "Bostrom (Nick) - Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    17. "Bostrom (Nick) - Infinite Ethics", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
    18. "Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies", 2014, Book, Read = 4%
    19. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
    20. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Future of Humanity", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    21. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Simulation Argument: Reply to Weatherson", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    22. "Bostrom (Nick) - The Transhumanist FAQ - A General Introduction", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 9%
    23. "Bostrom (Nick) - Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    24. "Bostrom (Nick) & Sandberg (Anders) - The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    25. "Bostrom (Nick) & Savulescu (Julian) - Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    26. "Bostrom (Nick) & Yudkowsky (Eliezer) - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    27. "Bostrom (Nick), Dafoe (Allan) & Flynn (Carrick) - Policy Desiderata for Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    28. "Bridle (James) - New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future", 2018, Book, Read = 4%
    29. "Bringsjord (Selmer) & Zenzen (Michael) - Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More", 2003, Book
    30. "Cerullo (Michael A.) - Uploading and Branching Identity", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 133%
    31. "Chalmers (David) - The Singularity: A philosophical analysis", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Cholbi (Michael), Etc. - John Templeton Foundation - Immortality Project Research Review", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    33. "Christen (Markus), Etc. - An Evaluation Schema for the Ethical Use of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Security Applications", 2017-8, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Contera (Sonia) - Nano Comes to Life", 2019, Book, Read = 1%
    35. "da Cunha (Rui Vieira) - Will I ever Be a Cyborg?", 2020, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    36. "Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit", 2014, Book, Read = 7%
    37. "DiGiovanna (James) - Fission, Fusion, and the Real World", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
    38. "DiGiovanna (James) - Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    39. "Edgar (Brian) - A New Immortality? Reflections on Genetics, Human Aging and the Possibility of Unlimited Lifespan", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    40. "Fetzer (James) - Computers and Cognition - Why Minds are not Machines", 2001, Book
    41. "Foroohar (Rana) - Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - And All of Us", 2019, Book, Read = 1%
    42. "Fry (Hannah) - Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine", 2018, Book, Read = 2%
    43. "Gavaghan (Colin) - A whole new... you? ‘Personal identity’, emerging technologies and the law", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    44. "Gibson (Margaret) & Carden (Clarissa) - Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life", 2018, Book, Read = 1%
    45. "Goertzel (Ben) - Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, And The Emerging Global Brain", 2002, Book
    46. "Grau (Christopher) - Philosophers Explore 'The Matrix'", 2005, Book, Read = 8%
    47. "Hanson (Robin) - The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth", 2016, Book, Read = 5%
    48. "Hayworth (Kenneth) - Killed by bad philosophy: Why brain preservation followed by mind uploading is a cure for death", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    49. "Kaku (Michio) - Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos", 2006, Book, Read = 1%
    50. "Kaku (Michio) - Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives", 2012, Book, Read = 1%
    51. "Kaku (Michio) - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel", 2009, Book, Read = 8%
    52. "Kaku (Michio) - Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century", 1999, Book, Read = 1%
    53. "Kent (Adrian) - Replication Ethics", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    54. "Koene (Randal) & Deca (Diana) - Whole Brain Emulation seeks to Implement a Mind and its General Intelligence through System Identification", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    55. "Kofoed-Ottesen (Mathias) - Really Good Lives (in the machine)? An onto-epistemological argument against Nozick’s Experience Machine", 2021, Internal PDF Link, Read = 83%
    56. "Kurzweil (Ray) - ‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange (between Ray Kurzweil and John Searle)", 1999, External Link
    57. "Kurzweil (Ray) - The Age of Spiritual Machines", 1999, Book
    58. "Lachs (John) - Persons and Technology", 1985, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    59. "Liao (S. Matthew) - Twinning, Inorganic Replacement, and the Organism View", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    60. "Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics", Book, Read = 24%
    61. "Madary (Michael) - Intentionality and virtual objects: the case of Qiu Chengwei’s dragon sabre", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    62. "Madary (Michael) & Metzinger (Thomas) - Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
    63. "Marshall (Richard) & Metzinger (Thomas) - Thomas Metzinger: All About the Ego Tunnel", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    64. "Marshall (Tim) - The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World", Book, Read = 5%
    65. "Maxmen (Amy) - A moral map for AI cars", 2018, External Link, Read = 100%
    66. "Midgley (Mary) - Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
    67. "Moore (Adrian W.) - Is the quest for immortality worse than death?", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    68. "Oderberg (David) - Could There Be a Superhuman Species?", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    69. "Olson (Eric) - The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    70. "Ord (Toby) - The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity", 2020, Book
    71. "Otsuka (Michael) - Personal Identity, Substantial Change, and the Significance of Becoming", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    72. "Proudfoot (Diane) - Facts about Artificial Intelligence", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    73. "Proudfoot (Diane) - How Human Can They Get? Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil", 1999, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    74. "Quach (Katyanna) - Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board", 2017, External Link, Read = 73%
    75. "Richmond (Alasdair) - Immortality and Doomsday", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    76. "Sandberg (Anders) - An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity", 2013
    77. "Schneider (Susan) - Artificial You", 2019, Book, Read = 8%
    78. "Schwitzgebel (Eric) & Garza (Mara) - A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    79. "Searle (John) - ‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange (between Ray Kurzweil and John Searle)", 1999, Internal PDF Link
    80. "Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are", 2012, Book, Read = 2%
    81. "Silver (David), Hassabis (Demis), Etc. - Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    82. "Silver (David), Hassabis (Demis), Etc. - Mastering the Game of Go without Human Knowledge", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    83. "Smith (Wilfred Cantwell) - The Promise of Artificial Intelligence", 2019, Book, Read = 2%
    84. "Susskind (Daniel) - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond", 2020, Book, Read = 2%
    85. "Tegmark (Max) & Bostrom (Nick) - How Unlikely is a Doomsday Catastrophe?", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    86. "Weatherson (Brian) - Are You a Sim?", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    87. "Wheeler (Tim Allan) - AlphaGo Zero - How and Why it Works", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    88. "Wilmott (Paul) - Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction", 2019, Book, Read = 3%
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link²⁵. Total papers = 6.

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder²⁶.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 23:

• Also look through other works by Andy Clark to get a handle on what he means by 'patterns in information space'.

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Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

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18/12/2010 19:58:05	518	Transhumanism

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Transhumanism	Thought Experiments

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal	Androids	Animalism	Animals	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)
Body	Chimera	Computers	Cyborgs	Evolution
Human Beings	Intelligence	Non-Human Persons	Note Links Explanation	Origins
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia	Teletransportation	Uploading	What are We?
Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Aeon Papers, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25	Aeon Papers - Summary Document: 2017-2018	Animation	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Brain State Transfer, 2
Chimera	Computers	Cyborgs	Degrees of Personhood	Disembodied Existence
Evolution	Existential Passage	Immortality, 2, 3	Information	Intelligence
Life After Death	Non-Human Persons	Olson - What Are We? Animals	Olson - What Are We? The Question	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Quantum Mechanics	Reincarnation	Resurrection	Status: Philosophy of Religion (2025 - March)	The Singularity
Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Method & Form	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
Thisness (Haecceity)	Thought Experiments	Time	Uploading	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - Hacking enlightenment	Paper		Yes
Agar (Nicholas)	Whereto Transhumanism?: The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Alexander (Denis)	Enhancing humans or a new creation?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Bailey (Ronald)	For Enhancing People	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Ball (Philip)	Sim ethics	Paper		Yes
Banks (Jennifer)	What awaits us?	Paper		Yes
Boesch (Brandon)	More-than-human science	Paper		Yes
Bridle (James)	New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future	Book
Brin (David), Broderick (Damien), Bostrom (Nick), Chislenko (Alexander), Hanson (Robin), More (Max), Etc.	A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept	Paper
Broderick (Damien)	Trans and Post	Paper	2
Cain (Susan)	The immortalists have got it wrong – here’s why we need death	Paper		Yes
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper		Yes
CSC WG	Human Enhancement – A Discussion Document	Paper
Dainton (Barry)	Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue	Paper		Yes
Delistraty (Cody)	Drugs du jour	Paper		Yes
Dresser (Sam)	How to not fear your death	Paper		Yes
Gable (Robert S.)	Efforts to expand the lifespan ignore what it’s like to get old	Paper		Yes
Gilbert (Bennett)	All that we are	Paper		Yes
Glubb (John Bagot)	The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival	Paper		Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25	Yes
Harari (Yuval Noah)	Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order	Paper		Yes
Hawthorne (John X.)	Are You Ready For The Cyborg Technology Coming In 2021?	Paper	2	Yes
Hershenov (David)	Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'	Paper		Yes
Holloway (Richard)	Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death	Book	2	Yes
Hopkins (Patrick D.)	Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right?	Paper
Hughes (James)	Transhumanism and Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3
Jones (D. Gareth)	A Christian Perspective on Human Enhancement	Paper		Yes
Lähde (Ville)	Decoupling	Paper		Yes
Lau (Graham)	The ‘panzoic effect’: the benefits of thinking about alien life	Paper		Yes
Lyons (Siobhan)	Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	Book
Madary (Michael)	N/A	Author
Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric)	Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands	Paper		Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie)	Human Persons – A Process View	Paper		Yes
Merkle (Ralph C.)	Uploading	Paper
Miah (Andy)	Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital	Paper	2
Minsky (Marvin)	Why Freud Was the First Good AI Theorist	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Moravec (Hans)	Pigs in Cyberspace	Paper
More (Max)	The Philosophy of Transhumanism	Paper	2, 3, 4
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	The Transhumanist Reader	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Biopolitics and Policy - Introduction	Paper	2
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Core Technologies - Introduction	Paper	2, 3
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death - Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Enhanced Decision-Making - Introduction	Paper	2, 3
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Future Trajectories: Singularity - Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere - Introduction	Paper	2
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Roots and Core Themes - Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea - Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4
Moynihan (Thomas)	Thanks for all the fish	Paper		Yes
O'Connell (Mark)	To be a Machine	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Oderberg (David)	Could There Be a Superhuman Species?	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper		Yes
Prisco (Giulio)	Transcendent Engineering	Paper	2, 3
Rose (Michael R.)	Immortalist Fictions and Strategies	Paper	2
Simoneau-Gilbert (Virginie) & Birch (Jonathan)	The dangers of AI farming	Paper		Yes
Stock (Gregory)	The Battle for the Future	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain State Transfer	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chimera	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Computers	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cyborgs	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Degrees of Personhood	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Disembodied Existence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Evolution	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Information	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intelligence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Non-Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Quantum Mechanics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reincarnation	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Resurrection	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - The Form of the Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thisness (Haecceity)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thought Experiments	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Uploading	Paper		Yes
Various	Transhumanist Declaration (2012)	Paper	2, 3, 4
Vita-More (Natasha)	Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts & Design into the Discussion of Transhumanism	Paper
Vyazovskiy (Vladyslav)	Could humans hibernate?	Paper		Yes
Woodward (Sam)	Terrifying vistas of reality	Paper		Yes
Wowk (Brian)	Medical Time Travel	Paper

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Aeon	Video - Connecting the human body to the outside world	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 09 January 2023	Yes
Aeon	Video - Could we have babies in space?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 14 June 2023	Yes
Aeon	Video - Go incredibly fast	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 18 January 2024	Yes
Aeon	Video - Hacking enlightenment	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 16 August 2021	Yes
Aeon	Video - Hacking enlightenment	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 16 August 2021	Yes
Aeon	Video - Is our attention for sale?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 15 September 2020	Yes
Aeon	Video - Our ark	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 11 May 2023	Yes
Aeon	Video - Soft awareness	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 25 March 2020	Yes
Agar (Nicholas)	Enhancing Humananity	Paper - By Subtopic	Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 13	7%
Agar (Nicholas)	Whereto Transhumanism?: The Literature Reaches a Critical Mass	Paper - By Subtopic	The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 37, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2007), pp. 12-17	33%
Alexander (Denis)	Healing, enhancement and the human future	Paper - By Subtopic	Cambridge Papers, Vol. 28.1, June 2019	33%
Allen (Nick)	Opening up the real-life X-files	Paper - By Subtopic	Daily Telegraph, Saturday 22 May 2021	Yes
Andersen (Ross)	Exodus	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 30 September, 2014	Yes
Andersen (Ross)	Omens	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 25 February, 2013	Yes
Andersen (Ross)	What Happens If China Makes First Contact?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Atlantic, December 2017	Yes
Anton (Roman)	Re-evaluation of artificial intelligence engine alpha zero	Paper - By Subtopic	MedCrave: Open Acc J Math Theor Phy. March 07, 2018; 1(1):22–33	25%
Armstrong (Rachel)	Alternative Biologies	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part II - Chapter 10	No
Aronson (Polina) & Duportail (Judith)	The quantified heart	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 12 July 2018	Yes
Ascott (Roy)	Back to Nature II: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IX - Chapter 40	No
Awad (Edmond), Etc.	The Moral Machine experiment	Paper - By Subtopic	Nature volume 563, pages 59–64 (1st November 2018)	11%
Bailey (Ronald)	For Enhancing People	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 32	No
Bainbridge (William Sims)	Transavatars	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part II - Chapter 9	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper - Referencing	Mind, 117:1120-1122, 2008	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Technology and the Future of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 37–53	7%
Ball (Matthew )	The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite	Paper - By Subtopic	MatthewBall.vc website, Jan 13, 2020	11%
Ball (Philip)	Sim ethics	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 06 September, 2018	Yes
Ball (Philip)	The final ethical frontier	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 24 October 2023	Yes
Ball (Philip)	We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter	Paper - By Subtopic	BBC Website ("Earth"), 6th September 2016	Yes
Banks (Jennifer)	What awaits us?	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 29 January 2024	Yes
Banks (Jennifer)	What awaits us?	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 29 January 2024	Yes
Barazzetti (Gaia) & Reichlin (Massimo)	Life Extension and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Enhancing Human Capacities, edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen and Guy Kahane, 2011, Blackwell Publishing Ltd	42%
Bekh (Olena) & Dingley (James)	Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course	Book - Cited	Bekh (Olena) & Dingley (James) - Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course	12%
Beloff (Laura)	The Hybronaut Affair: A Menage of Art, Technology, and Science	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part II - Chapter 8	No
Bergporsson (Jon Birkir)	How Virtual Machines Can Instantiate Strong Artificial Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Master of Philosophy Thesis, Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, August 2016	2%
Binstock (Robert H.)	Anti-Aging Medicine and Research: A Realm of Conflict and Profound Societal Implications	Paper - By Subtopic	The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 59, Issue 6, June 2004, Pages B523–B533	11%
Blackford (Russell)	The Great Transition: Ideas and Anxieties	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IX - Chapter 38	No
Boesch (Brandon)	More-than-human science	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 24 April 2025	Yes
Boloni (Ladislau)	From the philosophy of personal identity to the laws of agent societies	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation" at the 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2004), Vienna, Austria, April 2004.	11%
Boorse (Dorothy)	Anti-Aging: Radical Longevity, Environmental Impacts, and Christian Theology	Paper - By Subtopic	Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Volume 57, Number 1, March 2005	11%
Bostrom (Nick)	Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?	Paper - Cited	Birkbeck Philosophy Society, 11th February 2003	No
Bostrom (Nick)	Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243-255	Yes
Bostrom (Nick)	Dignity and Enhancement	Paper - By Subtopic	Commissioned for the President’s Council on Bioethics, 2007	4%
Bostrom (Nick)	Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Preprint of paper published in the Journal of Value Inquiry, 2003, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 493-506	6%
Bostrom (Nick)	Infinite Ethics	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis and Metaphysics, Vol. 10 (2011): pp. 9-59	2%
Bostrom (Nick)	Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	Book - Cited	Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	4%
Bostrom (Nick)	Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	Paper - By Subtopic	Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies	7%
Bostrom (Nick)	The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Medical Ethics (2005) Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 273-277	33%
Bostrom (Nick)	The Future of Human Evolution	Paper - By Subtopic	Charles Tandy, Ed., Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing, 2004	No
Bostrom (Nick)	The Future of Humanity	Paper - By Subtopic	New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, eds. Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger, & Soren Riis (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2009)	8%
Bostrom (Nick)	The Simulation Argument: Reply to Weatherson	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, Vol. 55, No. 218, pp. 90-97	No
Bostrom (Nick)	The Transhumanist FAQ - A General Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	World Transhumanist Association, Version 2.1, 2003	9%
Bostrom (Nick)	The Vulnerable World Hypothesis	Paper - By Subtopic	Global Policy Volume 10 . Issue 4 . November 2019	No
Bostrom (Nick)	Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing	Paper - By Subtopic	MIT Technology Review, May/June issue (2008): pp. 72‐77	17%
Bostrom (Nick)	Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part I - Chapter 3	No
Bostrom (Nick) & Sandberg (Anders)	The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement	Paper - By Subtopic	Chapter 18 of Bostrom & Savulescu (Eds.) Human Enhancement, OUP, 2009	6%
Bostrom (Nick) & Savulescu (Julian)	Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate	Paper - By Subtopic	Introductory Chapter of Bostrom & Savulescu (Eds.) Human Enhancement, OUP, 2009	6%
Bostrom (Nick) & Yudkowsky (Eliezer)	The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Draft for Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, eds. William Ramsey and Keith Frankish (Cambridge University Press, 2011)	6%
Bostrom (Nick), Dafoe (Allan) & Flynn (Carrick)	Policy Desiderata for Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach	Paper - By Subtopic	Liao, S.M. (ed.): Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University Press, 2019	4%
Bridle (James)	New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future	Book - Cited	Bridle (James) - New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future	4%
Bridle (James)	New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future	Paper - By Subtopic	Bridle (James) - New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future	8%
Brin (David), Broderick (Damien), Bostrom (Nick), Chislenko (Alexander), Hanson (Robin), More (Max), Etc.	A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VIII - Chapter 37	No
Bringsjord (Selmer) & Zenzen (Michael)	Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More	Book - By Subtopic	Bringsjord (Selmer) & Zenzen (Michael) - Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More	No
Bringsjord (Selmer) & Zenzen (Michael)	Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More	Paper - By Subtopic	Bringsjord (Selmer) & Zenzen (Michael) - Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More	No
Broderick (Damien)	Trans and Post	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IX - Chapter 39	No
Buckingham (Angela)	Murder in virtual reality should be illegal	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 24 November, 2016	Yes
Burgess (Matt)	Holding AI to account	Paper - By Subtopic	Wired Magazine; 11 January 2016	Yes
Burri (Susanne) & Robillard (Michael)	Why banning autonomous killer robots wouldn’t solve anything	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 19 December, 2017	Yes
Cain (Susan)	The immortalists have got it wrong – here’s why we need death	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 14 December 2022	Yes
Cambridge	CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Cambridge - CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine)	11%
Cave (Stephen)	Frozen dead guys	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 08 May, 2013	Yes
Cerullo (Michael A.)	Uploading and Branching Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Minds & Machines (2015) 25:17–36	78%
Chalmers (David)	The Singularity: A philosophical analysis	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 17, Issue 01-02 (2010)	No
Chatfield (Tom)	Automated ethics	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 31 March, 2014	Yes
Chatfield (Tom)	The attention economy	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 07 October, 2013	Yes
Chislenko (Alexander)	Intelligent Information Filters and Enhanced Reality	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part III - Chapter 13	No
Cholbi (Michael), Etc.	John Templeton Foundation - Immortality Project Research Review	Paper - By Subtopic	John Templeton Foundation Website, October 2018	3%
Christen (Markus), Etc.	An Evaluation Schema for the Ethical Use of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Security Applications	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Zurich Digital Society Initiative White Paper Series, no. 1; Posted: 3 Nov 2017; Last revised: 25 Nov 2018	No
Christian (Brian)	The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer	Book - Cited	Christian (Brian) - The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer	Yes
Christian (Brian)	The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer	Paper - By Subtopic	Christian (Brian) - The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer	Yes
Clark (Andy)	Re-Inventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part III - Chapter 11	No
Clark (Andy) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Aeon: Video - Andy Clark - Virtual immortality	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 19 August, 2019	Yes
Clay (Alexa)	Growing up alien	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 17 January, 2014	Yes
Colebrook (Claire)	End-times for humanity	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 01 June, 2017	Yes
Collins (Barry)	Can AI Solve Chess's Stalemate	Paper - By Subtopic	PC Pro - Computing in the Real World, Issue 330, April 2022 (Received in February 2022)	Yes
Corabi (Joseph) & Schneider (Susan)	The Metaphysics of Uploading	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Consciousness Studies, 19, No. 7–8, 2012, pp. 26–44	No
Dainton (Barry)	Self: Philosophy In Transit	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	7%
Dainton (Barry)	Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue	Paper - Referencing	Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit, Prologue	Yes
Davidson (Donald)	Inquiries into Truth & Interpretation	Book - By Subtopic	Davidson (Donald) - Inquiries into Truth & Interpretation	8%
Davies (Sally)	Women’s minds matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 30 May, 2019	Yes
de Grey (Aubrey)	The Curate's Egg of Anti-Anti-Aging Bioethics	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part V - Chapter 21	No
DeGrazia (David)	Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, June 2005, 30.3, pp. 261-283	No
DeGrazia (David)	Enhancement Technologies and Self-Creation	Paper - By Subtopic	DeGrazia - Human Identity and Bioethics, 2005, Chapter 6	No
DeGrazia (David)	Human Identity and Bioethics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	DeGrazia (David) - Human Identity and Bioethics	7%
Delistraty (Cody)	Drugs du jour	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 4 January 2017	Yes
Deutsch (David)	Creative blocks	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 03 October, 2012	Yes
DiGiovanna (James)	Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood	Paper - By Subtopic	Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, Palgrave MacMillan, September, 2015, Chapter 35	17%
Dingemanse (Mark)	The space between our heads	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 4 August 2020	Yes
Edgar (Brian)	A New Immortality? Reflections on Genetics, Human Aging and the Possibility of Unlimited Lifespan	Paper - By Subtopic	Evangelical Review of Theology: Journal of the World Evangelical Fellowship Vol. 23 No 4, (1999) 363-382	6%
Epstein (Robert)	The empty brain	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 18 May, 2016	Yes
Fetzer (James)	Computers and Cognition - Why Minds are not Machines	Book - By Subtopic	Fetzer (James) - Computers and Cognition - Why Minds are not Machines	No
Fetzer (James)	Computers and Cognition - Why Minds are not Machines	Paper - By Subtopic	Fetzer (James) - Computers and Cognition - Why Minds are not Machines	No
Foroohar (Rana)	Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - And All of Us	Book - By Subtopic	Foroohar (Rana) - Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - And All of Us	1%
Foroohar (Rana)	Video - How Big Tech betrayed us	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 18 February 2021	Yes
Francis (Matthew)	Is this life real?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 21 January, 2014	Yes
Frank (Adam)	Alien life is no joke	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 30 April 2024	Yes
Frary (Mark)	Beyond Repair	Paper - By Subtopic	Cambridge Alumni Magazine - Issue 97 - Michaelmas Term 2022	Yes
Freitas (Robert A.)	Welcome to the Future of Medicine	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part II - Chapter 6	No
Fry (Hannah)	Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine	Book - By Subtopic	Fry (Hannah) - Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine	2%
Fry (Hannah)	Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine	Paper - By Subtopic	Fry (Hannah) - Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine	4%
Fry (Hannah)	Video - Should computers run the world?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 07 April 2021	Yes
FT, ChatGPT	Five Books - The Best Books on Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	FT, Five Books, 17 January 2024	25%
Gable (Robert S.)	Efforts to expand the lifespan ignore what it’s like to get old	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 24 August 2023	Yes
Gavaghan (Colin)	A whole new... you? ‘Personal identity’, emerging technologies and the law	Paper - By Subtopic	IDIS (2010) 3:423–434	8%
Gibson (Margaret) & Carden (Clarissa)	Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life	Book - By Subtopic	Gibson (Margaret) & Carden (Clarissa) - Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life	1%
Gibson (Margaret) & Carden (Clarissa)	Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life	Paper - By Subtopic	Gibson (Margaret) & Carden (Clarissa) - Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life	2%
Gifford (Sheyna)	Life on Mars	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 12 February, 2016	Yes
Goertzel (Ben)	Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part III - Chapter 12	No
Goertzel (Ben)	Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, And The Emerging Global Brain	Book - By Subtopic	Goertzel (Ben) - Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, And The Emerging Global Brain	No
Goertzel (Ben)	Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, And The Emerging Global Brain	Paper - By Subtopic	Goertzel (Ben) - Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, And The Emerging Global Brain	No
Grau (Christopher)	Philosophers Explore 'The Matrix'	Book - By Subtopic	Grau (Christopher) - Philosophers Explore 'The Matrix'	8%
Graziano (Michael)	Build-a-brain	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 10 July, 2015	Yes
Graziano (Michael)	Endless fun	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 18 December, 2013	Yes
Green (Jaime)	Uncertain contact	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 06 October 2023	Yes
Greene (Kate)	Planet boredom	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 26 February, 2014	Yes
Grossman (Lev), Kurzweil (Ray)	2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal	Paper - By Subtopic	Time Magazine, February 21, 2011	Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: A-B (& General)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: A-B (& General)	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: A-B (& General)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: C-F	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: C-F	51%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Follow-up Boxes	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: Follow-up Boxes	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Follow-up Boxes	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Follow-up Boxes	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: G-K	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: G-K	30%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: L-P	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: L-P	33%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Q-S	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: Q-S	29%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: T-Z	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: T-Z	21%
Hall (J. Storrs)	Nanocomputers	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IV - Chapter 18	No
Hanson (Robin)	Idea Futures: Encouraging an Honest Consensus	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VI - Chapter 25	No
Hanson (Robin)	The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth	Book - By Subtopic	Hanson (Robin) - The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth	5%
Hanson (Robin)	The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth	Paper - By Subtopic	Hanson (Robin) - The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth	12%
Harari (Yuval Noah)	Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order	Paper - Referencing	Personal Notes taken from attendance via Zoom	Yes
Harari (Yuval Noah)	Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow	Book - Cited	Harari (Yuval Noah) - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow	Yes
Hayworth (Kenneth)	Killed by bad philosophy: Why brain preservation followed by mind uploading is a cure for death	Paper - By Subtopic	The Brain Preservation Foundation website	No
Hayworth (Kenneth)	Vitrifying the Connectomic Self	Paper - By Subtopic	The Brain Preservation Foundation website (February 2018)	11%
Hershenov (David)	Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'	Paper - Referencing	Religious Studies, 43:2, June 2007, 237-242	Yes
Hopkins (Patrick D.)	Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right?	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 33	No
Houston (Catriona)	Remote control of the brain is coming: how will we use it?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 05 August, 2016	Yes
Huenemann (Charlie)	If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 01 August, 2017	Yes
Hughes (James)	Transhumanism and Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part V - Chapter 23	No
Iida (Fumiya)	Could we build a Blade Runner-style ‘replicant’?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Conversation, October 5, 2017 10.44am BST	Yes
Isaac (Sasha)	Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 18 December, 2019	Yes
Jaekl (Philip)	Am I my connectome?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 19 March 2021	Yes
Jaekl (Philip)	In Cold Blood	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 14 December, 2017	Yes
JCS	Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 17, Issue 01-02 (2010)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	JCS - Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 17, Issue 01-02 (2010)	No
Jones (Christopher)	New tech only benefits the elite until the people demand more	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 06 September, 2016	Yes
Kaku (Michio)	Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos	Book - By Subtopic	Kaku (Michio) - Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos	1%
Kaku (Michio)	Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives	Book - By Subtopic	Kaku (Michio) - Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives	1%
Kaku (Michio)	Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel	Book - By Subtopic	Kaku (Michio) - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel	8%
Kaku (Michio)	The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind	Book - By Subtopic	Kaku (Michio) - The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind	Yes
Kaku (Michio)	Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century	Book - By Subtopic	Kaku (Michio) - Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century	1%
Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig)	Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	Book - By Subtopic	Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig) - Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	Yes
Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig)	Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	Paper - By Subtopic	Kasparov (Garry), Greengard (Mig) - Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins	Yes
Kent (Adrian)	Replication Ethics	Paper - By Subtopic	Arxiv.org, January 8, 2019	11%
Klein (Mike)	Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match	Paper - By Subtopic	Chess.com, 6 Dec 2017	Yes
Kobie (Nicole)	Neuralink: an old idea that could be the future of medicine	Paper - By Subtopic	PC Pro - Computing in the Real World, 342, April 2023	Yes
Kobie (Nicole)	The risks of the generative AI gold rush	Paper - By Subtopic	PC Pro - Computing in the Real World, 344, June 2023	Yes
Koene (Randal A.)	Uploading to Substrate-Independent Minds	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part III - Chapter 14	No
Koene (Randal) & Deca (Diana)	Whole Brain Emulation seeks to Implement a Mind and its General Intelligence through System Identification	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Artificial General Intelligence 4(3) 1-9, 2013	11%
Kofoed-Ottesen (Mathias)	Really Good Lives (in the machine)? An onto-epistemological argument against Nozick’s Experience Machine	Paper - By Subtopic	Academia Letters, Article 458, March 2021	33%
Kozubek (Jim)	Even if genes affect intelligence, we can’t engineer cleverness	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 11 December, 2017	Yes
Krakauer (David C.)	At the limits of thought	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 20 April 2020	Yes
Kurzweil (Ray)	‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange (between Ray Kurzweil and John Searle)	Paper - By Subtopic	New York Review of Books, May 20th 1999	No
Kurzweil (Ray)	Progress and Relinquishment	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IX - Chapter 42	No
Kurzweil (Ray)	The Age of Spiritual Machines	Book - By Subtopic	Kurzweil (Ray) - The Age of Spiritual Machines	No
Kurzweil (Ray)	The Age of Spiritual Machines	Paper - By Subtopic	Kurzweil (Ray) - The Age of Spiritual Machines	No
Kurzweil (Ray) & Drexler (K. Eric)	Dialogue between Ray Kurzweil and Eric Drexler	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IV - Chapter 20	No
Kurzweil (Ray) & Kuhn (Robert Lawrence)	Video - Closer to Truth: Raymond Kurzweil - What is the Nature of Personal Identity?	Paper - By Subtopic	Closer To Truth, 15 August 2020	Yes
Lähde (Ville)	Decoupling	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 07 May 2024	Yes
Lähde (Ville)	The polycrisis	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 17 August 2023	Yes
Lau (Graham)	The ‘panzoic effect’: the benefits of thinking about alien life	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 25 March 2025	Yes
Lewis (David)	Lucas Against Mechanism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy , Jul., 1969, Vol. 44, No. 169 (Jul., 1969), pp. 231-233	33%
Lewis (David)	Lucas Against Mechanism II	Paper - By Subtopic	Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 373-376	33%
Lewis (David)	Papers in Philosophical Logic	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lewis (David) - Papers in Philosophical Logic	3%
Lindsay (Grace)	Planes don’t flap their wings: does AI work like a brain?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 07 February, 2018	Yes
Lucas (J.R.)	Minds, Machines and Gödel	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy, Vol. 36, No. 137 (Apr. - Jul., 1961), pp. 112-127	13%
Luper (Steven), Ed.	The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Luper (Steven), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death	5%
Lyons (Siobhan)	Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	Book - By Subtopic	Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	24%
Lyons (Siobhan)	Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	Paper - By Subtopic	Lyons (Siobhan) - Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	36%
Madary (Michael)	How would the world look if it looked as if it were encoded as an intertwined set of probability density distributions?	Paper - By Subtopic	Frontiers in Psychology (2012) 3	No
Madary (Michael)	Intentionality and virtual objects: the case of Qiu Chengwei’s dragon sabre	Paper - By Subtopic	Ethics and Information Technology, 16 (2014) 219-225	33%
Madary (Michael) & Metzinger (Thomas)	Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct	Paper - By Subtopic	Frontiers in Robotics and AI, February 2016	14%
Marsa (Linda)	The longevity gap	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 02 July, 2014	Yes
Marsh (Stefanie)	Extreme biohacking: the tech guru who spent $250,000 trying to live for ever	Paper - By Subtopic	The Guardian, 21st September 2018	Yes
Marshall (Tim)	The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World	Book - By Subtopic	Marshall (Tim) - The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World	5%
Marshall (Tim)	The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World	Paper - By Subtopic	Marshall (Tim) - The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World	7%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Mascaro (Joe)	To save Earth, go to Mars	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 11 May, 2016	Yes
Maxmen (Amy)	A moral map for AI cars	Paper - By Subtopic	Nature volume 562, pages 469-470 (25th October 2018)	No
McGlokin (Mitch)	Aeon - Video - Forever	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 03 February 2022	Yes
Medlock (Ben)	The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 14 March, 2017	Yes
Merkle (Ralph C.)	Uploading	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part III - Chapter 15	No
Miah (Andy)	Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 29	No
Midgley (Mary)	Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears	Book - By Subtopic	Midgley (Mary) - Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears	2%
Midgley (Mary)	Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears	Paper - By Subtopic	Midgley - Evolution as a Religion - Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears	5%
Miller (Kenneth D.)	Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?	Paper - By Subtopic	NY Times, 11th October 2015	Yes
Miller (Mark S.), Tribble (E. Dean), Pandya (Ravi) & Stiegler (Marc)	The Open Society and Its Media	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VI - Chapter 27	No
Minerva (Francesca) & Rorheim (Adrian)	What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 08 August, 2017	Yes
Minsky (Marvin)	Why Freud Was the First Good AI Theorist	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IV - Chapter 16	No
Moor (James H.), Ed.	The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence	Book - By Subtopic	Moor (James H.), Ed. - The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence	1%
Moor (James H.), Ed.	The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Moor (James H.), Ed. - The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence	1%
Moore (Adrian W.)	Is the quest for immortality worse than death?	Paper - By Subtopic	New Statesman, 11 December 2019	Yes
Moore (Adrian W.)	Is the quest for immortality worse than death?	Paper - By Subtopic	New Statesman, 11 December 2019	No
Moravec (Hans)	Pigs in Cyberspace	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IV - Chapter 17	No
More (Max)	A Letter to Mother Nature	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IX - Chapter 41	No
More (Max)	The Philosophy of Transhumanism	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part I - Chapter 1	No
More (Max)	The Proactionary Principle: Optimizing Technological Outcomes	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VI - Chapter 26	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	The Transhumanist Reader	Book - Cited	More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - The Transhumanist Reader	6%
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Biopolitics and Policy - Introduction	Paper - Cited	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part VII	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Core Technologies - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part IV	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part V	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Enhanced Decision-Making - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part VI	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Future Trajectories: Singularity - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part VIII	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Human Enhancement: The Cognitive Sphere - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part III	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Human Enhancement: The Somatic Sphere - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part II	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: Roots and Core Themes - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part I	No
More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha)	Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Introduction to Part IX	No
Morus (Iwan Rhys)	Supermensch	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 05 March 2020	Yes
Moynihan (Thomas)	Thanks for all the fish	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 18 March 2021	Yes
Musser (George)	Consciousness creep	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 25 February, 2016	Yes
Nicholson (Arwen E.) & Haywood (Raphaelle D.)	There’s no planet B	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 16 January 2023	Yes
O'Connell (Mark)	To be a Machine	Book - Cited	O'Connell (Mark) - To be a Machine	Yes
O'Connell (Mark)	To be a Machine	Paper - By Subtopic	O'Connell (Mark) - To be a Machine	Yes
Oderberg (David)	Could There Be a Superhuman Species?	Paper - By Subtopic	The Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (2014): 206-26	6%
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper - Referencing	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 2, Chapter 19, 2015: 409-423	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism	Paper - By Subtopic	Boran Berčić (Editor) - Perspectives on the Self, July 2017, pp. 35-58.	67%
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper - Referencing	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Olson (Jay)	Capturing the cosmos	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 08 January 2024	Yes
Ord (Toby)	The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity	Book - By Subtopic	Ord (Toby) - The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity	0%
Ord (Toby)	The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity	Paper - By Subtopic	Ord (Toby) - The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity	1%
Paik (Jamie)	Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 10 January 2020	Yes
Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds. - Personal Identity	0%
PC Pro	Computing in the Real World	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	PC Pro - Computing in the Real World	18%
Pessoa (Luiz)	Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 13 April 2018	Yes
Poole (Steven)	The human race	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 07 November, 2012	Yes
Price (Huw)	Now it’s time to prepare for the Machinocene	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 17 October, 2016	Yes
Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc.	Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 1	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Cambridge Research Horizons, Issue 35, February 2018, pp. 20-29	Yes
Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc.	Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 2	Paper - By Subtopic	University of Cambridge Research Horizons, Issue 35, February 2018, pp. 30-37	Yes
Priest (Graham)	Logic: A Very Short Introduction	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Priest (Graham) - Logic: A Very Short Introduction	2%
Priest (Graham)	Logic: A Very Short Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Priest (Graham) - Logic: A Very Short Introduction	2%
Prisco (Giulio)	Transcendent Engineering	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part V - Chapter 24	No
Proudfoot (Diane)	Facts about Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Science, New Series, Vol. 285, No. 5429 (Aug. 6, 1999), p. 836	No
Proudfoot (Diane)	How Human Can They Get? Review of The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil	Paper - By Subtopic	Science, New Series, Vol. 284, No. 5415 (Apr. 30, 1999), p. 745	No
Quach (Katyanna)	Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board	Paper - By Subtopic	The Register, 14 Dec 2017	73%
Regis (Ed)	Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge	Book - Cited	Regis (Ed) - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge	Yes
Regis (Ed)	Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge	Paper - By Subtopic	Regis (Ed) - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge	Yes
Renstrom (Joelle)	And their eyes glazed over	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 12 September, 2016	Yes
Renstrom (Joelle)	What happened when I made my students turn off their phones	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 18 October, 2017	Yes
Richmond (Alasdair)	Immortality and Doomsday	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul., 2004), pp. 235-247	8%
Rose (Hilary) & Rose (Steven)	Prometheus Inc	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 14 September, 2013	Yes
Rose (Michael R.)	Immortalist Fictions and Strategies	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part IV - Chapter 19	No
Rothblatt (Martine)	Mind is Deeper Than Matter: Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Freedom of Form	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 31	No
Rowson (Jonathan)	Deep Thinking?	Paper - By Subtopic	New In Chess, 2017/5, pp. 44-49	Yes
Russell (Stuart)	The Reith Lectures 2021: Living With Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	BBC Radio 4 Website, December 2021	26%
Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha)	Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI	Book - By Subtopic	Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI	3%
Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha)	Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI	Paper - By Subtopic	Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI	12%
Sandberg (Anders)	An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VIII - Chapter 36	No
Sandberg (Anders)	Morphological Freedom - Why We Not Just Want It, but Need It	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part I - Chapter 5	No
Sandberg (Anders) & Bostrom (Nick)	Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap	Paper - By Subtopic	Future of Humanity Institute Website, 2008	No
Scharf (Caleb)	Where do minds belong?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 22 March, 2016	Yes
Schneider (Susan)	Artificial You	Book - By Subtopic	Schneider (Susan) - Artificial You	8%
Schwitzgebel (Eric)	We have greater moral obligations to robots than to humans	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 12 November, 2015	Yes
Schwitzgebel (Eric) & Garza (Mara)	A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 39 (2015), 98-119	3%
Searle (John)	‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange (between Ray Kurzweil and John Searle)	Paper - By Subtopic	New York Review of Books, May 20th 1999	No
Searle (John), Etc.	Minds, Brains, and Programs	Book - By Subtopic	Searle (John), Etc. - Minds, Brains, and Programs	93%
Searle (John), Etc.	Minds, Brains, and Programs	Paper - By Subtopic	Searle (John), Etc. - Minds, Brains, and Programs	No
Sententia (Wrye)	Freedom by Design: Transhumanist Values and Cognitive Liberty	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 34	No
Sepkoski (David)	What a fossil revolution reveals about the history of ‘big data’	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 12 February, 2018	Yes
Seung (Sebastian)	Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are	Book - By Subtopic	Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are	2%
Shapiro (Michael)	The Identity of Identity: Moral and Legal Aspects of Technological Self-Transformation	Paper - By Subtopic	Paul, Miller & Paul - Personal Identity, 2005	No
Shapiro (Michael), More (Max)	Performance Enhancement and Legal Theory: An Interview with Professor Michael H. Shapiro	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 28	No
Shostak (Seth)	Video - Further - Seth Shostak	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 23 September 2016	Yes
Shulman (Carl) & Bostrom (Nick)	How Hard is Artificial Intelligence? Evolutionary Arguments and Selection Effects	Paper - By Subtopic	J. Consciousness Studies, Vol. 19, No. 7-8 (2012): 103-130	8%
Silver (Albert)	The future is here – AlphaZero learns chess	Paper - By Subtopic	Chessbase - Chess News - 6 Dec 2017	Yes
Silver (David), Hassabis (Demis), Etc.	Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm	Paper - By Subtopic	arxiv.org, 05 December, 2017	22%
Silver (David), Hassabis (Demis), Etc.	Mastering the Game of Go without Human Knowledge	Paper - By Subtopic	Nature, via Deepmind.com, 2017	6%
Simoneau-Gilbert (Virginie) & Birch (Jonathan)	The dangers of AI farming	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 22 March 2024	Yes
Simon-Lewis (Alexandra)	Is it dangerous to recreate flawed human morality in machines?	Paper - By Subtopic	Wired Magazine; Thursday 13 July 2017; posted on Philos_List	Yes
Singler (Beth)	fAIth	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 13 June, 2017	Yes
Smith (Wilfred Cantwell)	The Promise of Artificial Intelligence	Book - By Subtopic	Smith (Wilfred Cantwell) - The Promise of Artificial Intelligence	2%
Smith (Wilfred Cantwell)	The Promise of Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Smith (Wilfred Cantwell) - The Promise of Artificial Intelligence	3%
Stavrinaki (Maria)	Prehistory in the atomic age	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 12 March 2024	Yes
Stinson (Catherine)	Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 15 May 2020	Yes
Stock (Gregory)	The Battle for the Future	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VII - Chapter 30	No
Stokes (Patrick)	Ghosts in the Machine: Do the Dead Live on in Facebook?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy & Technology volume 25, pages 363–379 (2012)	7%
Susskind (Daniel)	A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond	Book - By Subtopic	Susskind (Daniel) - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond	2%
Susskind (Daniel)	A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond	Paper - By Subtopic	Susskind (Daniel) - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond	4%
Tegmark (Max)	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Book - Cited	Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Yes
Tegmark (Max)	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Paper - By Subtopic	Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Yes
Tegmark (Max) & Bostrom (Nick)	How Unlikely is a Doomsday Catastrophe?	Paper - By Subtopic	This paper is an extended version of the Brief Communication published in Nature, 438, 754	17%
The Week, Botsman (Rachel)	Big data meets Big Brother	Paper - By Subtopic	The Week, Issue 1151, 18 November 2017	Yes
The Week, Lucas (Louise) & Feng (Emily)	Inside China's Surveillance State	Paper - By Subtopic	The Week, 11 August 2018	Yes
Theil (Stefan)	Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong - and How to Fix It	Paper - By Subtopic	Scientific American, 1st October 2015	Yes
Tillson (John)	Imagine you could insert knowledge into your mind: should you?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 14 July 2021	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Birkbeck Philosophy Society - 2002/2003 Programme	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chimera	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Computers	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Transhumanism	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Uploading	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Uria-Recio (Pedro)	How AI Will Shape Our Future	Book - Referenced	Uria-Recio (Pedro) - How AI Will Shape Our Future	1%
Vallverdu (Jordi) & Talanov (Max)	On Importance of Life and Death for Artificial Intelligent Creatures	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Computers, Newsletter, The American Philosophical Association, Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 2016, pp. 31-37	17%
Various	Transhumanist Declaration (2012)	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part I - Chapter 4	No
Vinge (Vernor)	Technological Singularity	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part VIII - Chapter 35	No
Vita-More (Natasha)	Aesthetics: Bringing the Arts & Design into the Discussion of Transhumanism	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part I - Chapter 2	No
Vita-More (Natasha)	Life Expansion Media	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part II - Chapter 7	No
Vyazovskiy (Vladyslav)	Could humans hibernate?	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 18 November 2024	Yes
Wareham (Christopher)	How can life-extending treatments be available for all?	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 02 August, 2017	Yes
Weatherson (Brian)	Are You a Sim?	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53: 425-31	No
Webb (Claire Isabel)	Cosmic vision	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 10 March 2023	Yes
Welford (Megan)	Always on my mind	Paper - By Subtopic	CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine), Issue 91, Michaelmas Term 2020	Yes
Wheeler (Tim Allan)	AlphaGo Zero - How and Why it Works	Paper - By Subtopic	Author's Website, November 2, 2017	33%
Wilmott (Paul)	Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction	Book - By Subtopic	Wilmott (Paul) - Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction	3%
Wilmott (Paul)	Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Wilmott (Paul) - Machine Learning: An Applied Mathematics Introduction	3%
Woodward (Sam)	Terrifying vistas of reality	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 25 March 2024	Yes
Woodward (Sarah)	Machine Learning	Paper - By Subtopic	CAM (Cambridge Alumni Magazine), Issue 85, Michaelmas Term 2018, pp. 20-24	Yes
Wowk (Brian)	Medical Time Travel	Paper - By Subtopic	More & Vita-More - The Transhumanist Reader, Part V - Chapter 22	No
Wyatt (John)	Artificial intelligence and simulated relationships	Paper - By Subtopic	Cambridge Papers, Vol. 28.3, December 2019	Yes
Zarkadakis (George)	The economy is more a messy, fractal living thing than a machine	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 13 July, 2017	Yes
Zeleznikow-Johnston (Ariel)	The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death	Book - Referenced	Zeleznikow-Johnston (Ariel) - The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death	1%
Zimmerman (Jess)	Young blood	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 27 August, 2014	Yes

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