Transhumanist Resources
Websites- The Centenarian
Information on living to an old age.
- Lifenaut.com
Lifenaut.com is a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical information about one’s unique and essential characteristics. The purpose in creating this ex-vivo consciousness storage is to preserve one’s individual consciousness so that it remains viable for possible uploading with consciousness software into a cellular regenerated or bionanotechnological body by future medicine and technology.
- Principia Cybernetica: Super- and/or Meta-being(s)
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The integration of human beings will proceed in another dimension than that of human culture, a dimension of depth. We conceive of a realization of cybernetic immortality by means of very advanced human-machine systems, where the border between the organic (brain) and the artificially organic or electronic media (computer) becomes irrelevant. Such hybrid organisms would survive not so much through the biological material of their bodies, but through their cybernetic organization, which may be embodied in a combination of organic tissues, electronic networks, or other media. With communication through the direct connection of nervous systems to machines and to each other, the death of any particular biological component of the system would no longer imply the death of the whole system. Such metasystems will be evolutionary selective, in that they will have advantages for survival in an evolving environment. This is a cybernetic way for an individual human person to achieve immortality.
- Principia Cybernetica: Cybernetic Immortality
The successes of science make it possible for us to raise the banner of cybernetic immortality. The idea is that the human being is, in the last analysis, a certain form of organization of matter. This is a very sophisticated organization, which includes a high multilevel hierarchy of control. What we call our soul, or our consciousness, is associated with the highest level of this control hierarchy. This organization can survive a partial --- perhaps, even a complete --- change of the material from which it is built.
- Wikipedia Entry on Transhumanism
Wikipedia is a participant-edited encyclopedia. Please feel free to create a user account in order to update the article on transhumanism.
- Anders Sandberg’s Transhumanist Resources
A somewhat dated, but very comprehensive, set of links to transhumanist resources on the web.
- Transhumanity
- Betterhumans
An independent transhumanist webzine.