Therefore, When I Grow Up I Want to Become an Aspirin Tablet

Why I Want to Be a Posthuman When I Grow up 1. Setting the Stage

Extreme human enhancement could result in “posthuman” modes of being. After offering some definitions and conceptual clarification, I argue for two theses. First, some posthuman modes of being would be very worthwhile. Second, it could be very good for human beings to become posthuman. 1. Setting the stage The term “posthuman” has been used in very different senses by different authors. I am sy...

Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up

Extreme human enhancement could result in “posthuman” modes of being. After offering some definitions and conceptual clarification, I argue for two theses. First, some posthuman modes of being would be very worthwhile. Second, it could be very good for human beings to become posthuman. 1. Setting the stage The term “posthuman” has been used in very different senses by different authors. I am sy...

Who do you want to be when you grow up?

"I Won't Grow Up"

I am therefore I think

This article offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates conscious operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations. Its agenda is to link formal (mathematical) descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The argument has two parts: the first calls on the lawful dynamics of any (weakly mixing ergodic) s...