Workshop: Transhumanism—The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea? †
by
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner
1, 
Hans-Jörg Kreowski
2,3,*,
Britta Schinzel
4,
Tomáš Sigmund
5,
Christian Stary
6
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Sabine Thürmel
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Department of Computer Science, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Wien, Austria
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University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), 28334 Bremen, Germany
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Institute for Computer Science and Society, University of Freiburg, Germany, Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), 79085 Freiburg, Germany
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Department of Systems Analysis, University of Economics, 13067 Prague, Czech Republic
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Department of Business Information Systems—Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler Universität, 4040 Linz, Austria
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TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
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Presented at the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.
Proceedings 2017, 1(3), 246; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1030246
Published: 3 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.)
Organizers: IS4SI SIG Emergent Systems, Information and Society (supported by the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin and the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science) and Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF), Germany
Transhumanism is an international philosophical and futuristic movement aiming to enhance the intellectual and physical capabilities of human beings beyond their current limits. It has gotten quite some drive and attention in the last 30 years. Transhumanists intend to employ already existing and future technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, cognitive science, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and others as human enhancement technologies. Max More, one of the major proponents, defines transhumanism as “a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman condition”. In contrast, critics like Francis Fukuyama consider transhumamism as one of “the world´s most dangerous ideas”. The workshop provided a forum to discuss the pros and cons of transhumanism from the point of view of information sciences, ethics, economics, psychology etc. The program comprised twelve presentations.
- Syed Mustafa Ali: Transhumanism and/as Whiteness
- Christopher Coenen: Transhumanism: A Progressive Vision of the Future or Liberal Capitalism’s Last Ideological Resort?
- José Díaz-Nafría and Teresa Guarda: Is the Internet-of-Things a Burden or a Leverage for the Human Condition?
- Olle Häggström: Aspects of Mind Uploading (invited)
- Wolfgang Hofkirchner: Imagined Futures Gone Astray. An Ontological Analysis
- Hans-Jörg Kreowski: Transhumanism and Nanotechnology—Will Old Myths Come True?
- Roman M. Krzanowski and Kamil Trombik: Just Machine Test (JMT)
- Janina Loh: The Utopia of Universal Control—Critical Thoughts on the Transhumanist and Technological-Posthumanist Concept of the Human, Transhuman, and Posthuman (invited)
- Tomáš Sigmund: Motives of Transhumanism
- Sarah Spiekermann: Human Manifesto (invited)
- Christian Stary: Agogic Principles in Trans-human Settings
- Felix Tretter: Image of Men in Posthumanism of Information Society (invited)
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Hofkirchner, W.; Kreowski, H.-J.; Schinzel, B.; Sigmund, T.; Stary, C.; Thürmel, S. Workshop: Transhumanism—The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea? Proceedings 2017, 1, 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1030246
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Hofkirchner W, Kreowski H-J, Schinzel B, Sigmund T, Stary C, Thürmel S. Workshop: Transhumanism—The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea? Proceedings. 2017; 1(3):246. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1030246
Chicago/Turabian StyleHofkirchner, Wolfgang, Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Britta Schinzel, Tomáš Sigmund, Christian Stary, and Sabine Thürmel. 2017. "Workshop: Transhumanism—The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?" Proceedings 1, no. 3: 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1030246
