Friday August 6, 2004
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Keynote address by Steve Mann (JJR McLeod Auditorium)
Saturday August 7, 2004
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
Opening Keynote Address: Aubrey de Grey “The feasibility and desirability of indefinite youth: recent advances from unexpected quarters”
10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
MANAGING RISKS
Mike Deering: “Telluris of Cyborgs: Safety Passage through Great Filter of Evolution” (with Pavel Vassiliev)
Michael Vassar: “Nanotech Safety is AI Safety”
Mark Walker: "The Ship of Fools: An Argument for Surviving Apocalyptic Risks through Cognitive and Ethical Enhancements"
THE EMERGING TRANSHUMAN CULTURE
Jende Huang: “Humanism and The Culture Wars”
Kip Werking: “The Transhuman Condition”
PUBLIC POLICY
Anders Sandberg: “Transformative Technology, Patient Culture and Health Policy”
Robin Hanson: “The Future of Debate”
Simon Smith: “Automatic for the People: How Humans Can Benefit from the Rise of Machines”
12:00 PM 1:00 PM
JBS Haldane Award Banquet
Address by Ron Bailey
1:15 PM to 2:45 PM
NANOTECH
Mike Treder: “Making a Safe Transition into the Nano Era”
Nano Tihamer Toth-Fejel: "Self-Replicating NanoMachines: A Kinematic Cellular Automata Approach"
WRITING AND PUBLISHING TRANSHUMANIST BOOKS
Ramez Naam, author of More than Human
Ron Bailey, author of Liberation Biology
James Hughes, author of Citizen Cyborg
BABIES AND PUPPIES
Linda MacDonald Glenn: “Vexation of Viability: Arbitrary or Valid? (Legal and Ethical Issues in ARTs)”
Jeff Medina: “Transpuppyism? The Status of Non-Humans in Transhumanist Ethics”
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
SOCIAL CHANGE
Phil Goetz: “Calibrating Accelerating Change”
Mark Hopkins: “The Fourth Wave”
ART, REPRODUCTION AND THE FUTURE
Linda Wallace: "Female Infertility and Reproductive Technology: An Artist's Perspective”
Monica Bock: “Art and the Maternal Experience”
HUMAN ENHANCEMENT
Tihamer Toth-Fejel: "A Critical Look at Leon Kass and Transhumanists on Ageless Bodies: Enhancement and Degradation of the Human Person”
Natasha Vita-More: “Entertainment Tomorrow: Cover Story 'Debating Leon Kass'”
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Keynote presentation by Stelarc (JJR McLeod Auditorium)
Sunday August 8, 2004
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
AGING
Joao Pedro de Magalhães: “The genetic network of human ageing: a system-level approach”
Rafal Smigrodski: “How to buy new mitochondria for your old body”
Aubrey de Grey: "Removing toxic aggregates that our cells can't break down"
THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE
Michael Anissimov: “Enhancing Intelligence; from Neurohackers to Self-Improving Ais”
Sean Kearney: “Can Social Software Increase Human Intelligence?”
Stelarc: "Avatar and Machine Intelligence"
10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
THE FUTURE OF THE BODY
Dale Carrico: "Vulgar Biocentrism Among the Technophiles"
Kenneth Evans: "Random Feed Switch Every Twenty Five: Gender and Technology in Transmetropolitan"
Robin Zebrowski: “Posthuman AI: How Recognizing the Importance of the Body Will Change Things”
UPLOADING AND IMMORTALITY
Ben Hyink: “Toward Non-Fatal Uploading: A New Framework”
Allen Randall: “Quantum Miracles and Immortality”
Peter Passaro: “Reimagining Uploading”
TRANSHUMAN ART AND AESTHETICS
Simon Levy: “The Fractal Beauty of Emergence : Re-envisioning Intelligent Behavior in Man and Machine”
George Dvorsky: "The Impact of Enhanced Humans on the Future of Art and Expression."
12:00 PM 1:15 PM
Closing Address: Nick Bostrom "Human Enhancement: Answering the Why Question"
1:15 PM to 1:30 PM
Final Announcements & Acknowledgments
Here's how the Faith, Transhumanism and Hope Seminar will look:
Thursday August 5, 2004
9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
Atheism, Rationalism and Transhumanism: Are Transhumanism and Religious Faith Compatible?
Jende Huang “Humanism and Transhumanism”
Tihamer Toth-Fejel “Is Catholic Transhumanism Possible?”
Patrick Hopkins “Transcending the Animal: How Transhumanism and Religion Are and Are Not Alike”
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The Future of Religion
Peter Addy “Mutant Religious Impulses of the Future”
Michael LaTorra “Trans-Spirit: Religion, Spirituality and Transhumanism”
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Box Lunch - Lunch Speaker (box lunch included with registration)
Nick Bostrom “Transhumanism and Religion”
1:00 PM to 2:15 PM
Neurotheology and the Moral Duty of Self-improvement
Mark Walker “Becoming Godlike”
James Hughes “Buddhism and Transhumanism: The Technologies of Self-Perfection”
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM
Immortalism: Sublimated Religious Impulse?
Andrei Chiril Istrati “On the Correlation between Religion and Immortality”
Jose Cordeiro “Religion, Science and Immortality”
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Closing Panel: Advancing the Religious Transhumanism Conversation
Go here to register.
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