Yesterday I blogged about the possibilities opened up by recent Japanese experiments that have successfully produced egg cells from stem cells, and about the implications these emerging technologies spell for what is increasingly looking to be a transhumanist future. There I noted that my co-author Scott de Hart and I argued in our book Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas, that much of what the world calls "transhumanism" is really not all that modern a phenomenon, but merely an update of an old, and quintessentially alchemical agenda. One of the things that alchemical texts … [Read more...]
TRANSHUMANISM: BRAIN CELLS COME ALIVE ON COMPUTER CHIP
Last week I blogged about the achievement of scientists at Harvard growing a kind of cyborg electrical tissue of sensors out of a biological matrix. Well folks, the transhumanist genie is not only out of the bottle, but appears to be growing week by week, as this article sent to me by Mr. D.W. in the United Kingdom, attests: Brain in a Dish Comes Alive Now, as the article notes, all this is being done in the noble pursuit of trying to help stroke victims (with, let it be noted, Stem cells, which brings to immediate mind all sorts of ethical questions, not the least of which is: how were … [Read more...]