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The posthumanist paradigm shift

Peter Binipom Mpuan (Twente): Human Identity in a Cyborg Future: Philosophical Anthropology and Medical Nanorobotics. Joanna Diane Caytas (Columbia): Transhumanism: A Function of Hybrid Nanomaterials? Anthony Lack (JCHS): Posthuman Dignity in a Transhuman World. Woody Evans (Texas): If You See a Cyborg in the Road, Kill the Buddha: Against Transcendental Transhumanism. As the world draws closer and closer to the day of Christ’s return, Britt Gillette takes a look at transhumanism in Bible prophecy. Matt Frohlich on why transhumanism needs to establish a meaning to life. Thomas D. Philbeck (WEF): Onscreen Ontology: Stages in the Posthumanist Paradigm Shift. Woody Evans (Texas): Because I am the Goddamn Batman: Liberty, Authority, and Posthuman Superheroes. Why are (some) transhumanists such dicks? From Humanamente, a special issue on reframining the debate on human enhancement. Ioana Cerasella Chis (Birmingham): The Emergence of Cybernetic Organisms and the Transformation of the Concept of “the Human”. Elena Colombetti (Sacro Cuore): Contemporary Post-Humanism: Technological and Human Singularity. Philip K. Dick was right, we are becoming androids: The deep problem, for Dick, wasn't that mechanisms might become more manlike — it's that men might be reduced to mechanisms. Gary Marcus on teaching robots to be moral. Erik Sofge on why artificial intelligence will not obliterate humanity.