Lee M. Silver is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University and co-founder of GenePeek, a genetic research company which screens couples for possible prospective genetic disorders in their children. Silver is the author of the book Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family (1998) and Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life (2006). Silver takes a positive view on human cloning, designer babies and similar prospects.
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Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament
This roundtable brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines to examine transhumanism—the prospect of using technologies such as genomics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, robotics, and prosthetics to enhance and transform human bodies and minds. It explores visions of radical life extension, digital forms of consciousness, and the idea of a technological “Singularity,” while also considering the broader scientific, philosophical, and cultural implications of moving beyond current conceptions of the human.