TRANSVISION
2003 USA CONFERENCE
"The
Adaptable Human Body: Transhumanism and Bioethics in the 21st
Century"
June
27-29, 2003
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY June 26, 2003
8am-5pm
Transhumanism Seminar
FRIDAY June 27, 2003
3pm-8pm
Conference
Registration
6-7:30pm
Buffet Dinner
8pm-10pm
Debate:
"Should Humans Welcome or Resist Becoming Post-Human?"
Welcome: Greg Stock Ph.D.
Resist: George Annas J.D.
SATURDAY June 28, 2003
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 62
High St., New Haven CT
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Registration
9:00 - 10:00 a.m
Opening Keynote: "Why
Not Re-Invent Humans? Is This The Best We Can Do?"
Greg Pence Ph.D.
10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
AI Ethics
Stuart Hameroff M.D. "Artificial quantum consciousness: Is it possible,
what would it look like?"
David Calverley J.D. "Artificial Intelligence as a Legal Entity"
Wendell Wallach "Robot Morals: Creating an Artificial Moral Agent
(AMA)"
Human Variation and Fairness
in Sports and Games
David Wasserman Ph.D.
Anita Silvers Ph.D.
Miller Brown Ph.D.
Leslie Francis Ph.D., J.D.
Animals, Clones and
Transhumans
Dorothy Wertz Ph.D. "Twenty Arguments on Cloning"
Craig DeLancey Ph.D. "Systematic Biocentric Axiology: Environmental
Ethics as a Foundation for Transhuman Ethics"
Jason Scott Robert Ph.D. "Confusion about crossing species
boundaries"
VIDEO: Cyberman (90 mins)
A video about Steve Mann the Toronto-based
cyborgologist.
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. (Lunch)
Sandwiches and sodas provided
12:30 - 1:20 p.m.
Development after De Chardin:
The Accelerating Transhumanist Frontier
John Smart
Moral issues on the Bioethics of the
Post-Cyborg Age
Steve Mann Ph.D.
Body
Slam! — Will Primo's Adaptable Body Cause TransCultural Collision?
Natasha Vita-More
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Disability &
Transhumanism
Barbara Gibson "Identity Experiments: The Connectivity of
Disability"
Anita Silvers Ph.D. "Disability and Enhancement"
Andrew Ward "Strategies for Workplace Disability Integration: A New
Model of Universal Access"
Transhumanist Bioethics
Nick Bostrom Ph.D. "Our Human and Posthuman Dignity"
J. Hughes Ph.D. "Transhumanism: A New Bioethics Paradigm"
Twyla Gibson Ph.D. "Philosophical Foundations and Methodological
Framework for a Transhumanist Bioethics"
Personhood,
Identity and Rights
Linda MacDonald Glenn J.D. "The Future Boundaries of Personhood:
Evolving Technological, Legal, and Ethical Definitions"
John Alan Cohan J.D. "The Question of Self-Identity and Brain
Transplants"
Susantha Goonatilake Ph.D. "Body, self and environment as constructed and
reconstructed: Insights from Buddhist philosophy
Posthuman Bodies
Patrick Hopkins Ph.D. "Barbie Bodies, Bacon Bodies, Plato Bodies,
Nietzsche Bodies: Differing Visions of How Biotechnology Should Be Used
to Transform Human Bodies"
Ian McKenna "Transhuman Identity: Distentio Animi"
Anders Sandberg Ph.D. "Morphological Freedom"
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
The
Future of Sex and Gender
Alice Dreger Ph.D. "The Once and Future Freak: What the History of the
Medical and Social Treatment of People with Unusual Anatomies Might Tell
Us about the Future of Transhumanism"
J. Hughes Ph.D. "The Future of Sex"
Vanessa Edwards Foster "Trans-enstein vs. Preacher Bob
and the Village Mob": Progress and Pain on the Road to Equality and
How Society Confronts Changing Realities"
Life Extension: The
Technologies
Rafal Smigrodski M.D., Ph.D. "Emerging Life Extension Therapies"
Aubrey de Grey Ph.D. "Foreseeable, radical life extension: the biology to
inform the philosophy"
Transhumanist Strategies
Simon Smith "Mainstreaming Transhumanism"
Ben Hijink "Organizing Campus Transhumanist Groups and an
International Facilitation Network"
The Future of the Brain
Ramez Naan "The Wired Brain"
Wrye Sententia "Neurocops: Policing the Borders of Human
Cognition"
5:00 - 6:00 p.m .
WTA/HFI Business Meeting
Jane Holt Video
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Reception and Buffet (SOLD OUT)
SUNDAY June 29, 2003
9:00-10:30am
Reproductive Technology and
Rights of Future Generations
William Grey Ph.D. "Design constraints for the Posthuman Future"
George Dvorsky "Reproductive Rights, Designer Babies, and the
Consent of the Unborn"
Dorothy Wertz Ph.D. "Controversial Choices after Prenatal Diagnosis: Has
Autonomy Gone Too Far?"
Moderator and Respondent: Ron Bailey
Governing Transhuman
Technologies
Mike Treder "Meeting the Challenge: Safe Utilization of Advanced
Nanotechnology"
William Edmundson Ph.D. "Posterity and Embodiment"
Jose Cordeiro "The Global Geopolitics towards Transhumanism and
Beyond"
Visions of the Singularity
Michael Anissimov "Accelerating Progress and the Potential
Consequences of Smarter than Human Intelligence"
Hatuna Pokrovskaia "Ecce Trans-Homo: The Progression of Ethics in
the Technological Revolution"
Future
of Robots, Bodies and Mind
Lanfranco Aceti "Prosthesis' Digital
Aesthetic: The Integrated Technology of Human Extensions "
Matt Sandler and Miles Lasater "When will robots have
human-style capabilities?"
Anatoly Nichvoloda "System Completion
Theory"
10:45-12:15pm
Visions of the Future
Moderator: John Smart
Andrew Zolli "Demographics of a Future Humanity"
David Donnelly Ph.D. "Ethics of Forecasting: Visions of the Future Human
Race"
Eli Yudkowsky "Posthumanity: A Nice Place To Live?"
The Ethics of Life Extension
Kenneth Sills "Why Immortality?"
Evelyn Shuster Ph.D. "To Live Forever: A Blessing or a Curse?"
John Davis Ph.D. "Methuselah's Children: Life-Extension and Fears of
Collective Harm"
Transhumanism vs. Humanism
Mark Gubrud Ph.D. "A Humanist Response to Transhumanism"
Munawar Anees Ph.D. "Transhumans and humans: Conflict or Convivencia?"
Austin Dacey Ph.D. "Is there "human nature" after 'nature-nurture'? A developmental systems approach"
"The Missing Word"
Alfredo Colunga
12:30 - 1p.m
Closing Keynote: "Who's
Afraid of PostHumanity?: The Politics and Ethics of Genetically
Engineering People"
Ron Bailey
1-1:15p.m
Final Announcements/Acknowledgments
