Today in our first seminar I learned some things about defining trans and post humanism–I also learned that we come from such different backgrounds that this should be super interesting.  Themes that caught my attention the most included Evelyn’s discussion …

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I’m Shannon Proctor, an assistant professor in Humanities at LaGuardia and teach courses in the Philosophy Program. My research concerns the ways in which habits simultaneously engender and inhibit our abilities to transform/become new. I am particularly interested …

In preparation to my return (from a parallel world or two) to LIB200, I plan to explore how the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics regarding multiple parallel worlds relates to several stories of Borges, Cortazar, and other writers of the …

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I’m Evelyn.  Having studied Philosophy in the 1970s when AI was just beginning and then History in the 1990s when Pragmatism a la Nietzsche in the 1990s was popular, I have been forced to think about the formation of …

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It’s such a pleasure to be able to participate in this seminar!  As a biologist who studies basic neuroscience questions, I’m particularly interested in how technological advances, particularly in the realms of biology and neuroscience, are changing conceptions …

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I am in the Education & Language Acquisition Department and am really excited to be working with all of you from such diverse backgrounds and different disciplines!  I feel like I will learn a lot this coming year!…

Christian Gonzales

My interest in taking this seminar revolves around exploring ideas connected to the meaning of human within a transhuman world. I am especially interested in learning how others define and see the evolving meanings of human. I also …