FBL54: Meghan O'Gieblyn - God, Human, Animal, & Machine
The Singularity Discussion Series
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The Christian Eschatology Paralleling Transhumanism
The first time that the word trans human was feared in English was in translation of Dante's Inferno, and it is in a passage where he's actually describing the resurrection. And so my essay on that topic was really just tracing how did that word get from,. you know, Dante, and then, you know, reappearing again and around the 1950s. So I looked at a lot of different movements, like the Russian cosmos and Nikolai Fedorov, talking about, similarly, a lot of the ideas that we associate state with transhumanism.
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