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TransVision 2010 * ARTICOLO COMPLETO Presentation by Miriam Ji Sun   Technology, Tranhumanism, Tidiness and Transgression Transhumanism raises some fundamental questions that newly arise in a very concrete form due to developments in science and technology. Many topics that are related to transhumanist philosophy such as immortality, the definition of life and the distinction between humans, animals and non-animate objects as well as the nature of thought, identity and being human can be traced far back in human history (e.g. Greek mythology, Chinese and Hindu tradition). Western as well as Eastern religions and philosophies have tried to find answers to these questions and to develop their own explanation models. However, through modern science and technology, these questions can be viewed in a new light....

TRANSVISION 2010 MILANO MUSEO DELLA SCIENZA E DELLA TECNOLOGIA A CURA AIT ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA TRANSUMANISTI 22-24 OTTOBRE 2010 Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist , and the Chief Science Officer of the  SENS Foundation . The central goal of Aubrey de Grey’s work is the expedition of developing a true cure for human aging *from Wikipedia Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (born 20 April 1963) is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology , and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation . He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research , author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the ageing process. He works on the development of what he calls " Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence " (SENS), a tissue-repair strategy intended to rejuvenate the human body a...