Meeting on Transhumanism 3/31

The action-packed, visual-aid-studded lecture will not assume any
background, so feel free to come as you are. But if you want a head
start, check these out:
First: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

Below are in-depth resources for those who are not doing anything for
break, are dying of curiosity, or for follow-up after the meeting:

Transhumanism (h+) in academic philosophy:
Here's an online journal that includes phil along with other areas:
http://jetpress.org/
This is the only online phil dissertation i know of that's directly
about h+ -- specifically personal identity, which i hope to deal with
in my talk. (Had a chance to chat with the author at a conference,
btw.):
http://www.maxmore.com/disscont.htm
Now some (openly) h+ philosophers:
http://www.nickbostrom.com/
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/blackford/
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/walker/
And for an mp3 of an interview with another (about his h+ phil book),
you can listen to this:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/2878/

Next, bioethics, which i separate out because i put out the word to
those folks:
One good overall beginning is this:
http://bioethics.com/?cat=21
And here's an interesting chart of positions:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/biopolitics
Finally, a notable h+ academic who i guess is more bioethics than phil:
http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/npublicationslisted.htm
, and who just happens to be the latest guest on Philosophy Bites:
http://nigelwarburton.typepad.com/philosophy_bites/2009/03/julian-savulescu-on-the-yuk-factor.html

Penultimately, just for thoroughness, here are general h+ resources:
The biggest umbrella group is moving to a new name/identity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanity%2B
But the old version has tons of resourses. At (rapidly) increasing length:
A short, close-as-it-comes-to-canonical self-definition:
http://transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/declaration/
A widely respected explanation that covers some bigger-picture issues
i'll deal with:
http://transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/transhumanist-values/
And a massive(ly informative) and pretty canonical FAQ:
http://transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/faq/
Here's a "technoprogressive" (not h+, they insist ;^) organization that
i (also) endorse. (Hey, it's my talk; and i'm going to make clear which
strands of h+ i agree with and which i think are nutty):
http://ieet.org/
Finally, i have to toss out this aging but very interesting collection:
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/

And finally-finally (finally!): i'm going to hand out an outline at the
meeting, which will incl schools of thought and organizations for
searching/WPing. But if folks want, i can post it all linkified for
your convenience.