L’écocide, qui se poursuit à l’échelle de la planète, et le clonage social, qui traverse nos sociétés, convergent vers une lutte contre la standardisation. Ecocide et clonage placent la diversité au cœur de la résilience du vivant et d’une révolution des relations. La réflexion qui suit s’appuie sur des allers-retours
PlusGerminata, d’ Olivier Fournout – C&F éditions / Collection Fiction, juin 2023 – 256 pages Quand le clonage devient la forme de reproduction principale des milliardaires, et que les grands manitous des biotech dessinent le monde. Une fiction écrite par Olivier Fournout, au carrefour de la littérature et des questions
PlusUn rêve de jeunesse éternelle. Voilà la vision d’Altos Labs, cette startup créatrice d’une technologie qui serait capable de rajeunir les cellules et de prétendre à une forme d’immortalité. Elle compte dans son équipe des ténors de la génétique et pas moins de deux prix Nobel. Un rêve à trois
PlusMutation – L’aventure humaine ne fait que commencer, de Nathanaël Wallenhorst – Editions Le Pommier, Juin 2021 – 274 pages Depuis quelques années, des groupuscules transhumanistes fantasment une mutation humaine. En nous « augmentant », nous pourrions vaincre la mort, et véritablement être « comme des dieux ». Mais opportunément,
PlusAu XIXe siècle, on mesurait les crânes et les cerveaux pour justifier la hiérarchie entre les sexes, les races et classes sociales. Le XXe siècle découvre et admet comme critères modernes les tests cognitifs, l’imagerie cérébrale et les gènes. Que sera le XXIe siècle, depuis la découverte de la plasticité
PlusAprès des décennies de foi inébranlable dans le progrès, il y a aujourd’hui dans les sociétés occidentales, une grave crise de confiance envers l’innovation technologique, associée à une tension « collapsologique ». Pourquoi le progrès technologique fulgurant s’associe-t-il à la crainte du futur ? Est-il encore adapté aux attentes de
PlusThere are three political trends that are emerging in the society to come and are already starting to clash a little bit. They are the pro-technology liberals, the pro-ecology conservatives and the pro-ecology egalitarians, the eternal struggle between freedom, order and equality. Human freedom will be conquered by technology, according to the
PlusAt a time when some see transhumanism as a new age of humanity thanks to technosciences, the impression of a lack of control dominates. A few spectacular scientific experiments, bordering on the fact-diverse, reinforce this impression, witness the case of genetically modified children in China. Does this mean that the way to increase
PlusTranshumanism, popularized by the American engineer and futurologist Ray Kurzweil with his University of the Singularity, and by the British cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick, presents itself as a movement of ideas advocating the transformation, improvement or increase of the human being through technology. He postulates that the hybridization of human and
PlusThe intelligence behind artificial "intelligence" (AI) is suspect. Admittedly, we are less and less doubtful of its remarkable technical capabilities. On the other hand, we increasingly doubt its... intelligence. For example, we hesitate to speak of genuine intelligence - in the strongest sense of the word - even though
PlusShould we be afraid of memory implants? A recent study echoed by UP' reports possible cyber attacks on our memory. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, a researcher in artificial intelligence, provides a forum that puts the legitimate fears we may have in their rightful place. Remote appropriation
PlusThe rapid development of the so-called NBIC technologies - nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science - is giving rise to possibilities that have long been in the realm of science fiction. Disease, aging, and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to bring to the forefront.
PlusBetween the hope of immortality and the inevitability of mortality, humans have always sought to counter the aging and defect of functional parts of their bodies. Thus, the myth of Prometheus shows that the ancient Greeks were already aware of the potential of certain parts of the body to repair themselves.
PlusThe announced rapid development of artificial intelligence is increasingly worrying "connected" discussion circles. Will robots animated - that's the term - by artificial intelligence supplant humans? Chances are the answer is yes if we continue to ignore
PlusMaking the history of immortality feeds the paradox: if immortality were effective, it would not be subject to any historicity. History, process, evolution: so many notions contrary to immortality. It is obviously not a question here of immortality - about which we know nothing - but of the thought of immortality.
PlusEternal life is mankind's oldest dream. A dream that could come true. Today, in the West, the quest for immortality has moved from a metaphysical question to technical and scientific considerations. In this film, the investigation focuses on the progress of laboratory research around the world.
PlusTranshumanism wants to seduce us. The myth of Frankenstein warns us that it may well destroy us. Intelligence or super-intelligence? We are beginning to get used to the term "transhumanism" which is still struggling to make its way into spell-check software. Behind this term, there are several currents that carry their own nuances on both sides and in both directions.
PlusOn 30 January next, the European Bioethics Forum will open its seventh edition until 4 February. On the theme "Human, post-human", which will be broken down into 35 debates, 135 experts, 40 major witnesses from the public, 370 schoolchildren and the general public will give their views. The human being is being transformed before our eyes, physically,
PlusThe emergence of new technologies and the progress made in many fields (digital, robotics, medicine...) have revolutionized our daily life and the way we look at the evolution of humanity in just a few years. What will we look like in the future? What are the limits? Answers at the France Culture conference
PlusIn less than fifteen years, the prophecies of those who foretell the victory over death and the triumph of a non-biological life form are likely to be fulfilled. Google's slogan "we're going to kill death" is not just an advertising slogan. For unbridled technology is moving inexorably towards the
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