Ep 1: What is Transhumanism?

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

In this first episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin ask the question 'What is Transhumanism?', and then go on to explore the landscape at the intersection of Christianity and Transhumanist thought.

• More about Amy Gaskin and Micah Redding
• The Cold Equations, Amy's first science fiction experience
• Wikipedia's definition of transhumanism
• Transhumanism's conflicted feelings about spirituality
• The history of the word transhumanism
• Dynamic optimism
• Christianity is about resurrection, not escapism
• Heaven is not my home - NT Wright
• Transhumanism and the Christian story
• Humanity+
• The Christian Transhumanist Association
• Further up! Further in!

"Transhumanism is at heart altruistic. You are not working for your own account. It's not about salivating upon hearing of a new technological consumer gadget or even trying to achieve personal immortality. You work for all, for a future with more options, more freedom, more safety, less hunger, less poverty, less death. Ultimately it's about creating a world with more good and less bad in it." - Koen De Paus

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