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Transcendence, the Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity

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Transcendence

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the Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity

Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the "natural" limitations experienced by humanity, through such developments as:the Singularity-the creation of machine intelligences that exceed the capacities of our biological brainsthe ability to replicate individual minds and put them into solid-state bodies or virtual environmentsindividual control over mental and emotional states for enhancing functionalities and/or ecstasiesSome of this is happening now. Some it is still in the minds of dreamers. In nearly ninety A-Z entries, Trans

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Coming Transhuman: Best. Thing. Ever; Techno-Optimism: A Brief History; Abolitionism; Artificial General Intelligence; Artificial Hippocampus; Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Life; Aubrey De Grey; Augmented Reality; Biohacking; Brain-Building Projects; Body Sculpting; Calorie Restriction; Citizen Scientists; Cloning; Copnitive Enhancement; Cognitive Science; Consciousness; Cosmism; Criticisms of Transhumanism; Cryonics; Cyborgs; Darpa; Designer Babies; Distributed Cognition; Evolutionary Psychology; Exoskeletons; ExtropianismF.M. Esfandiary/F.M. 2030Friendly AI; Foresight Institute; Fun Theory; Gamification; Genomics; George Church; Graphene; Grinders; Humanity+; Implants; In Vitro Meat; Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology (IEET); Law of Accelerating Returns; Libertarian Transhumanism; Longevity/Immortality; Martine Rothblatt; The Matrix; Max More and Natasha Vita-More; Memory-Editing Drugs; The Methuselarity; Mind-Reading Bots; Mind Uploading; Moore's Law; Mormon Transhumanist Association; Nanotechnology; NBIC; Neurobotics; Neurotechnology; Nutraceuticals; Open Source; OptogeneticsPerformance EnhancementPeter Thiel; Post-Darwinian; Posthumanity; Post-Scarcity; Proactionary Principle; Prosthetics; Psychedelic Transhumanism; Quadcopters; Quantified Self; Quantum Computing; Rapture of the Nerds; Ray Kurzweil; Robotics; Science Fiction; Sens Research Foundation; Sexbots; Simulation Theory; The Singularity; Singularity University; Sousveillance; Space Colonization; Steal This Singularity; Stem Cells; Synthetic Biology; Telomeres; 3D Printing; Timothy Leary; Transbemanism; Transgender; Transhumanist TV, Film, and Games; Virtual Reality; Warbots; Xprize; Zero State; Addendum

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