12.29.06
Posted in Anti-Aging, Human Enhancement, Organisations, Transhumanism at 7:31 am by rheil
Life Extension Foundation – Highest Quality Vitamins And Supplements (“The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the radical extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is develop methods to enable us to live in health, youth and vigor for unlimited periods of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but the founders have been involved in antiaging research since the 1960′s. “)
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Posted in Anti-Aging, Human Enhancement, Organisations, Transhumanism at 7:30 am by rheil
The Longevity Meme – pointing the way to a longer, healthier life (“Aging is an enemy. It saps our strength, cripples and eventually kills us. The lack of information, advocacy and awareness of anti-aging and healthy life extension research is a terrible thing. Much of the general public thinks of aging as inevitable and natural, rather than as a medical condition that may one day be curable. Comparatively few people know that the effects of aging can be slowed with diet and lifestyle choices, just as for many other medical conditions. The Longevity Meme is a non-profit organisation, founded in mid-2001. Our goal is to encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality. We aim to ensure that the means and potentials of healthy life extension become commonly accepted throughout the world.”)
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12.28.06
Posted in Cryonic, Human Enhancement, Organisations, Technology, Transhumanism at 4:26 pm by rheil
Cryonics: Alcor Life Extension Foundation (“The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is the world leader in cryonics, cryonics research, and cryonics technology. Cryonics is the science of using ultra-cold temperature to preserve human life with the intent of restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so. Alcor is a non-profit organization located in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in 1972.”)
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Organisations, Transhumanism at 4:24 pm by rheil
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS): A practical way to cure human aging (“SENS ist ein detailierter Plan, den menschlichen Alterungsprozess umzukehren. SENS ist in dem Sinne ein Projekt der Ingenieurswissenschaften, in dem auch die Medizin ein Teilgebiet der Ingenieurswissenschaften ist. Der Schlüssel zu SENS ist es, das Altern aufzufassen als eine Menge schrittweise fortschreitender Veränderungen der Körperzusammensetzung auf molekularer und zellulärer Ebene, die als Nebenwirkung wichtiger Stoffwechselprozesse auftritt. Diese Veränderungen denkt man sich daher am besten als Anhäufung von “Schäden”, die erst dann besonders pathologische Symptome verursachen, wenn sie einen gewissen Schwellenwert überschreiten. Der traditionelle gerontologische Ansatz zur Lebensverlängerung, nämlich der Versuch diese Anhäufung von Schäden zu verlangsamen, ist irreführend.”) Die Seite bietet eine grosse Zahl von Texte zum Download an.
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Organisations, Technology at 4:18 pm by rheil
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (“Why Can’t We All Be Better Than Well? The IEET’s mission is to become a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive approach to emerging human enhancement technologies. We believe that technological progress can be a catalyst for positive human development so long as we ensure that technologies are safe and equitably distributed.”)
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Posted in Evolution / Genetics, Future, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 4:12 pm by rheil
Future Human Evolution (“This site is about the future of human evolution. We explore and present information on technological activities (and their associated social implications) that have the capacity to not only enhance our survival probability as a species, but to improve the quality of life as we move along the evolutionary path. We are non-partisan, and are neither anti nor pro-religious, preferring to remain open or at least tolerant regarding theories and beliefs which can be neither proven nor refuted scientifically. (See our pages on Macro vs. Micro Evolution and Science vs. Religion for more on these topics.)”)
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Technology, Transhumanism at 4:06 pm by rheil
Mac Tonnies Visual Industries Transhumanism. (“The MTVI transhumanism site is an attempt to pin down the trends and technologies most likely to upgrade the human species. Evolution is a performance art.”)
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Posted in AI / Singularity, Evolution / Genetics, Future, Human Enhancement, Nanotechnology, Technology, Transhumanism at 4:04 pm by rheil
KurzweilAI.net (“KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today’s big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. We are witnessing intersecting revolutions in a plethora of fields: biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual reality, human brain reverse engineering, brain augmentation, robotics, and many others. The leading visionaries represented on this site examine these transforming trends and their profound impact on economics, the arts, politics, government, warfare, medicine, health, education, disabilities, social mores, and sexuality.”)
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Nootropics, Technology, Transhumanism at 4:00 pm by rheil
Paradise-engineering : The Hedonistic Imperative (“This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. Genetic engineering and nanotechnology allow Homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. Our post-human successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world.”)
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Posted in Deutschsprachige Seiten, Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Texts about Transhumanism, Transhumanism at 11:52 am by rheil
Linus Geisler: Schamlose Schöpfer. Genmanipulation oder: die Endlospirale zum Metamenschen [FR, 02.01.1999] (“International führende Biowissenschaftler glauben, daß sie nun bald soweit sind, den Menschen selbst gentechnisch verändern zu können. Bei einer Konferenz vor einigen Monaten in Chicago warben sie vehement für diesen “besseren Menschen”. Welches Denken hinter diesen fragwürdigen Träumen steckt, hat Linus S. Geisler untersucht. Der Autor ist Chefarzt am St. Barbara Hospital in Gladbeck und einer der bedeutendsten kritischen Köpfe in der deutschen bioethischen Debatte.”)
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Posted in Deutschsprachige Seiten, Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Texts about Transhumanism, Transhumanism at 11:41 am by rheil
Hubert Mania: Die Immortalitäts-Technosophie des Transhumanismus. Es muss nicht immer Gentechnik sein [Telepolis, 19.08.2001] (“Das Menschenbild des Transhumanismus (TH) stützt sich auf eine naturwissenschaftlich geprägte und auf Vernunft gegründete Definition von Homo sapiens mit dem ausdrücklichen Anliegen, den anatomischen Status Quo mit Hilfe von Wissenschaft und Technik verbessern zu wollen. Religiöse und esoterische Einflüsse lehnt der TH ab. Der Transhumanismus ist also keine neue Heilslehre oder Erlösungsphilosophie, sondern eine junge, säkulare Immortalitäts-Technosophie. Ihr visionärer Ideenfluss wird aus naturwissenschaftlichen Quellen und deren technischen Anwendungen gespeist.”)
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Nootropics, Transhumanism at 11:03 am by rheil
Wikipedia-Artikel: Nootropic (smart drugs)
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Nootropics, Transhumanism at 11:01 am by rheil
Melissa Healy: Cosmetic neurology? The future of smart drugs (“It would be hard to imagine improving on the intelligence of computer engineer Bjoern Stenger, a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University. Yet for several hours, a pill seemed to make him even brainier.”)
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12.27.06
Posted in Deutschsprachige Seiten, Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 9:05 am by rheil
Florian Rötzer: Mäuse mit menschlichen Stammzellen [Telepolis, 14.12.2005] (“Die EU hat ein großes Forschungsprojekt über die Aussichten und Probleme bei der Herstellung von Mensch-Tier-Chimären gestartet, US-Wissenschaftler demonstrierten, dass menschliche Stammzellen sich in die Gehirne von Mäusen integrieren.”)
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Posted in Critics, Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:58 am by rheil
Francis Fukuyama und Robert Wright: What the Law Should Say About Cloning By Francis Fukuyama and Robert Wright
(“A few weeks ago, at a conference in Avesta, Sweden, I saw a speaker pick up your new book, Our Posthuman Future, look at it with theatrical disdain, and toss it onto the floor, as if into a trash heap. The speaker was Max More, leader of the “Extropians,” a group that considers technological progress a nearly unmixed blessing and books like yours an impediment to it.”) Emaildiskussion zwischen Francis Fukuyama und Robert Write.
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Posted in Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:53 am by rheil
Therapeutic Cloning, Does it violate human dignity? Interessante Auseinandersetzung zwischen unterschiedlichen Vertretern des Transhumanismus und einem “bioconservativen”.
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Posted in Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:52 am by rheil
The Catalog Of Correctable Omnipresent Human Flaws (Katalog der korrigierbaren allgegenwärtigen menschlichen Fehler/Schwächen)
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Posted in Future, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:50 am by rheil
Future Imperative [Blog von Ralph Cerchione] (“What if technology were being developed that could enhance your mind or body to extraordinary or even superhuman levels — and some of these tools were already here? Wouldn’t you be curious? Actually, some are here. But human enhancement is an incredibly broad and compartmentalized field. We’re often unaware of what’s right next door. This site reviews resources and ideas from across the field and makes it easy for readers to find exactly the information they’re most interested in.”)
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Posted in Deutschsprachige Seiten, Human Enhancement, Neuro, Technology, Transhumanism at 8:49 am by rheil
Florian Rötzer: Neuroprothesen ziehen in die Gehirne der Menschen ein [Telepolis, 20.07.2005] – (“Brasilien will in der Anwendung der Neurotechnologie voranpreschen. In drei Jahren soll in einem brasilianischen Krankenhaus das erste Mal ein Chip in das Gehirn eines Menschen implantiert werden, mit dem eine Armprothese durch Abanhme von neuronalen Impulsen in einem Areal des motorischen Kortex gesteuert wird. Die Technik wurde von Miguel Nicolelis, der aus Brasilien stammt und gegenwärtig das Neurowissenschaftliche Institut an der Duke University leitet, entwickelt.”)
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Posted in Deutschsprachige Seiten, Evolution / Genetics, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:41 am by rheil
Florian Rötzer: Moralisch korrekte Gewinnung von embryonalen Stammzellen? [Telepolis, 18.10.2005] “Zwei Wissenschaftlerteams haben bei Mäusen zwei interessante Methoden entwickelt, mit denen sie hoffen, die gegen das therapeutische Klonen gerichtete Ablehnung unterlaufen zu können.”
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Posted in Anti-Aging, Human Enhancement, Transhumanism at 8:40 am by rheil
Living to 100 and Beyond: Search for Predictors of Exceptional Human Longevity (“Centenarians represent one of the fastest growing age groups in the U. S. Yet, factors indicating longevity and its time trends remain to be fully understood. Natalia Gavrilova and Leonid Gavrilov conducted this research, which explores possible predictors of exceptional human longevity such as familial factors, early–life living conditions, month-of-birth, and birth order. The Committee on Life Insurance Research and the Committee on Knowledge Extension Research are pleased to make available the results of this research project.”)
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