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Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Transhuman Age

The Transhuman Age: "Technologies are here now that allow us to transcend the limits of biology, and promising advances are occurring constantly.

A recent article in Slate titled “Are You There God? It’s Me, Brain” discusses “theory of mind.” The article, an excerpt from the book The Belief Instinct by Jesse Bering, discusses our human tendency to try to understand how someone else is thinking. This tendency is so strong that we may even anthropomorphize objects:"

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