posthumans

Most intriguing, in my view, is the possibility of person-engineering to produce future individuals - call them "posthumans" - that are better able to detect and analyze the many

Ethical Technology 2010

"Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or" posthumans, "could run" ancestor simulations "of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems."

Lee Schneider: Living in Sim 2009

As Dr. Bostrom, director of the Future Of Humanity Institute at Oxford (how do you get that gig?) put it: technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or "posthumans," could run "ancestor simulations" of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.

August 2007 2007

As Dr. Bostrom, director of the Future Of Humanity Institute at Oxford (how do you get that gig?) put it: technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or "posthumans," could run "ancestor simulations" of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.

Life As A Video Game? 2007

The "posthumans" described were mimes done out in metallic body-paint.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

If so, "posthumans" may be richly more endowed than their predecessors.

Archive 2006-05-01 Mac 2006

Spirituality, much like religious belief, seems to be very much a part of human nature, and to the extent that "posthumans" still retain this part of human nature, then I expect spirituality to continue to be a part of it.

The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

Spirituality, much like religious belief, seems to be very much a part of human nature, and to the extent that "posthumans" still retain this part of human nature, then I expect spirituality to continue to be a part of it.

The Speculist: Survey Results 10-13 2006

The Eternal Quest hinted at this strand of thought in references to "posthumans", but didn't go much beyond that as it was concerned solely with individuals.

SYNTAGMA 2010

How can know whether we're simulations in some superduper computer built by posthumans?

Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil 2010