THE TRANSHUMANISM, A NEW RELIGION? A CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE ON THE PHENOMENON

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Nick Bostrom, ”What is the transhumanism ?” (Original version appeared in 1998, here slightly revised and with a postscript added in 2001): Superintelligent machines, Lifelong emotional well-being through re-calibration of the pleasure- centers. Personality pills, Drugs and gene therapy, Space colonization, Molecular nanotechnology, Vastly extended life spans, The interconnected world, Reanimation of cryonics patient .

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Tom Beauchamp, James Childress, Principles of biomedical ethics, Oxford Universi y Press, New York, 8th edition, 2019 , p. 13. This edition provides substantial clarification to the one published in 1977 on the four fundamental principles as a result. of the synthesis of two central elements: “examining considered moral judgment and the coherence of moral beliefs”.

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