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 | Apr 24, 2013 | Amoral Solipsism, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Digitized and Digested, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near peaked my interest when he posited his reasoning for why there is likely no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. By a mere matter of odds, most of us assume (likely myself included) that there simply must be some...
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....
