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What
will the body be like in 50 years, and how will changes to our bodies
change our lived experience? How will we adapt the body to our needs
and to the environments in which we live? Will we have conquered
sickness, aging and death for all or only for the lucky few? Will
people be migrating to silicon platforms, pursuing enhanced biological
existence, or both or neither? This conference, the first Transvision
conference to be sponsored by the World Transhumanist Association in
North America, seeks to explore the future of the body from the
transhumanist perspective. TV03USA is co-sponsored by the Yale
Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program's Working Group on
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TV2003USA was co-sponsored by the World
Transhumanist Association and the
Media SponsorsTV03USA CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEEChair: James Hughes Ph.D., Public Policy Studies, Trinity College, Hartford CT USA and Secretary of the World Transhumanist Association Gregor Wolbring Ph.D., Dept. Biochemistry, Director of the International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Natasha Vita-More, Douglas Mulhall, author of Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World Nick Bostrom Ph.D., Philosophy Dept., Oxford University and Chair of the World Transhumanist Association Mark Walker Ph.D., Philosophy Dept., Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada Randolfe H. Wicker, |
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