Religious Transhumanism, Resources and Further Reading, Handout:

Recommended Popular Culture, Movies, and TV: 

• Movies: 

  • The Matrix (The Simulation Hypothesis, Artificial Intelligence)

  • Transcendance (Mind Uploading)

  • Her (Artificial Intelligence)

  • Bicentennial Man (Robotcs and Artificial Intelligence)

• TV Series: 

  • Caprica (Mind Uploading, Religion)

Research Papers/Articles/Publications:

• "The Extended Mind" Andy Clark & David Chalmers, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3328150 (The nature of the self, and potential extensions to the mind)

• "Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia" David Chalmers (Can computers be conscious) https://philpapers.org/rec/CHAAQF 

• "Plenty of Room at the Bottom", Richard P. Feynman, 1959, https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf (Nanotechnology)

• "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us",  Bill Joy, WIRED, 2000, https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/  (the dangers of future technology)

• "When Ideas have Sex" Matt Ridley, TED Talk 2010 https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex?language=en  (the nature of technological change)

• "The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?" Robin Hanson, 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/20100507074729/http://hanson.gmu.edu/greatfilter.html (The Great Filter, Fermi Paradox, and what that may mean for humanity's future)

• "The Simulation Argument" Nick Bostrom, Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, https://simulation-argument.com/ (The Simulation Hypothesis)

• The New God Argument (a modern argument for why there could be a God, using aspects of transhumanism) https://new-god-argument.com/ 

• Books:

  • "The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology", 2005, By Ray Kurzweil  (Singularitarianism) https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology-ebook/dp/B000QCSA7C/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

  • "Engines of Creation, The Coming Age of Nanotechnology", K. Eric Drexler, forward by Marvin Minsky , 1986, 1990, (Nanotechnology) https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Creation-Nanotechnology-Library-Science/dp/0385199732/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2N91TQPISQTX4&keywords=engines+of+creation+drexler&qid=1706808338&s=digital-text&sprefix=engines+of+creation+drexler%2Cdigital-text%2C209&sr=1-1-catcorr 

Lectures and Presentations:

• Religious Transhumanism (Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum):

  • https://youtu.be/SXDyIBAKF_E 

  • "(OLD LECTURE):

    • Religious Transhumanism, Part 1 of 2, Introduction to Transhumanism)" lecture at  UULA, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALJBq5fmYw

      • Unfortunately, Part 2, Religious Transhumanism,  failed to record.

• James L. Carroll, "Religious Transhumanism" Los Alamos Science and Faith Forum

  • https://youtu.be/SXDyIBAKF_E 

• James Carroll, "An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" UULA Forum, 

  • https://youtu.be/pH0_ECANvXI?si=_xO4tWN4Ubq-Yd8F 

• James Carroll, "Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Science, Peril, and Promise", Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum, 

  • https://youtu.be/aZi6ggu0wC0?si=1XOe7rrGQQ1_Q-vV 

• TED: "The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death" by Stephen Cave (YouTube Link)

• The Evolution of God: What Evolution says about the Existence and Nature of God" by James Carroll, 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4jYlKavkmQ 

Transhumanist Associations:

• Humanity+: https://www.humanityplus.org/ 

• Christian Transhumanist Association: https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/ 

• Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.transfigurism.org/