An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. Dante coined the word “transhumanise” in the Divine Comedy, 700 years ago. “Trasumanar” is the transformation he will undergo in order to share in the life of paradise. Today, the word has associations that are strikingly related to… Continue reading How can we transhumanise? And why we need to
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From Trance to Extraterrestrials: Developments in Human Evolution, Robin Dunbar, Simon Conway Morris
An MP3 version of this discussion is at my podcast feed, Talks and Thoughts. A discussion of two new books on human evolution by leading evolutionary biologists, Robin Dunbar and Simon Conway Morris. Dunbar offers a revisionary account of the emergence of religion in Homo sapiens. Conway Morris considers widespread myths in Darwinian evolution, of… Continue reading From Trance to Extraterrestrials: Developments in Human Evolution, Robin Dunbar, Simon Conway Morris
Longing for the Infinite – 7 key features of Dante’s transhumanism
The word transhumanism was coined by Dante to capture his realisation of divine life in paradise. It has been colonised today by technologists dreaming of utopias. I explore 7 key differences to recover Dante’s vision from the Divine Comedy, in the 700th anniversary year of the great poet’s death, which is also to explore the… Continue reading Longing for the Infinite – 7 key features of Dante’s transhumanism