Tag: biotechnology
Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?
“We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms.”
Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis
This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared.
C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism
I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case.
Why C. S. Lewis Wrote The Abolition of Man
Lewis’s deep suspicion of modernist educational projects, subjectivism about morality, and progressive scientific planning animates these lectures.
The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman
In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race.