by Dan | Mar 16, 2018 | Analysis of Film and Media, Consciousness is What Counts, Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
I’ve been cajoled into watching Netflix’s Black Mirror, and a friend of mine recommended watching the San Junipero episode next. As I mentioned in my last Black Morror reflection, and I didn’t plan on watching anything that wasn’t worth 40...
by Dan | Sep 16, 2014 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Improving Sentient Experience, Managing the Transhuman Transition, The Good Must Be Explored
The Aim of Positive Psychology Positive Psychology’s founder Dr. Martin Seligman has undertaken the “moon-shot” endeavor to have 51% of the human population psychologically flourishing by 2051. It’s an audacious goal intended to unite positive psychology’s forces in...
by Dan | Apr 14, 2014 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Improving Sentient Experience, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
In the coming decades ahead, we’ll likely augment our minds and explore not only a different kind of “human experience”, we’ll likely explore the further reaches of sentience and intelligence itself, and it’s a process that I believe is...
by Dan | Jun 9, 2013 | Consciousness is What Counts, Improving Sentient Experience, Interviews with Philosophers
David Pearce is an Oxford philosopher and one of the world’s most prominent proponents of utilitarianism. His work and writing on transhumanism (and involvement with organizations like the IEET) has also lead him to be recognized as the possibly most recognized...
by Dan | Jan 24, 2013 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Discerning the Good Itself, Managing the Transhuman Transition
I’ve been diving into “Human Enhancement” (Oxford) as of late, and came across a topic that was bristling in my own mind before I saw the name of the chapter. In the chapter called “Prejudice and Moral Status of Enhanced Beings,” Julian...
by Dan | Dec 23, 2012 | Consciousness is What Counts, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Improving Sentient Experience, The Good Must Be Explored
As humans, learning often feels good, food often tastes good, novelty brings joy to life, living by values that we set brings order to our consciousness, and besides very few of us, relationships imbue the most meaning in our lives and bring us our greatest highs....
