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POPSBlog | Leonid Korogodski Hi, for the new visitors, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Rina, a character from Leonid Korogodski’s science fiction novella Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale, blogging from the 31st century. Recently, going through some old archives from the early 21st century.
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POPSAbout the Book Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale Pink Noise is daring in all the ways that science fiction is supposed to be daring. Not only is it great fun to read and filled with moments of touching grace and emotional power, but Pink Noise is also the most thorough-going exploration of the posthuman condition that I have read.
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POPSEclipse Phase Posthuman Studios Has a Game for You Posthuman Studios has new game, Eclipse Phase, allows players to explore the most far-out transhumanist possibilities in a cosmic horror setting. Playing this game, you quickly realize that, in a transhuman future, killing things is often a bad idea... and you may not even want their stuff.
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POPSPosthuman Stories Are Creation Myths Turned Upside Down An interesting perspective to ponder about: Are the posthuman & transhumanist movements the new belief-systems for scientific-mindsetted non-believers? Where lies that fine line between religion, belief, speculation & reality, naive optimism & depressive realism? How does our cultural heritage influence this reversal from past to future? And also a link to the free scifi ebook on this topic.
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POPSEthical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhuman animals Through the application of Rawlsian moral frameworks, and in consideration of the acknowledgement of legally recognized nonhuman persons, it can be shown that the presence of uplift biotechnologies will represent a new primary good and will thus necessitate the inclusion of highly sapient nonhumans into what has traditionally been regarded as human society.
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POPS Scientists: Humans and machines will merge in future The end result would be a new form of "posthuman" life with beings that possess qualities and skills so exceedingly advanced they no longer can be classified simply as humans. Bostrom declined to predict an exact time frame when this revolutionary biotechnological metamorphosis might occur. "Maybe it will take eight years or 200 years," he said. "It is very hard to predict."
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POPSThe Future ........ In Us Inspired by Wildcat clip: We Should Take the 'Posthuman' Era Seriously. MARTIN REES : "We are custodians of a 'posthuman' future — here on Earth and perhaps beyond — that can't just be left to writers of science fiction."
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POPSARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION? we need not assume that the thesis of substrate-independence is necessarily true (either analytically or metaphysically) – just that, in fact, a computer running a suitable program would be conscious
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