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  Bestselling visionary author Zoltan Istvan, an American-Hungarian, began a solo, multi-year sailing journey around the world at the age of 21. His main cargo was 500 handpicked books, mostly classics. He's explored over 100 countries—many as a journalist for the National Geographic Channel—writing, filming, and appearing in dozens of television stories, articles, and webcasts. His work has also been featured by The New York Times Syndicate, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC Radio, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel. In addition to his award-winning coverage of the war in Kashmir, he gained worldwide attention for pioneering and popularizing the extreme sport of volcano boarding. Zoltan later became a director for the international conservation group WildAid, leading armed patrol units to stop the billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade in Southeast Asia. Back in America, he started various successful businesses, from real estate development to filmmaking to viticulture, joining them under ZI Ventures. He is a philosophy and religious studies graduate of Columbia University and resides in San Francisco with his daughter and physician wife. Zoltan recently published The Transhumanist Wager, a fictional thriller describing apatheist Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. The controversial novel was recently a #1 bestseller in Philosophy and Sci-Fi Visionary on Amazon. You can find him at:Website: www.transhumanistwager.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheTranshumanistWagerTwitter: @zoltan_istvanLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/zoltan-istvan/64/a29/78aGoogle+:https://plus.google.com/101457828255104035246aboutAmazon: The Transhumanist Wager: http://www.amazon.com/The-Transhumanist-Wager-Zoltan-Istvan/dp/0988616114/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381375210&sr=8-1&keywords=the+transhumanist+wager   The post Zoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager SWP#5 appeared first on SERIOUS WONDER.

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David Pearce is a British utilitarian philosopher. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and non-human animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he refers to as "paradise engineering". A transhumanist and a vegan, Pearce believes that we (or our future posthuman descendants) have a responsibility not only to avoid cruelty to animals within human society but also to alleviate the suffering of animals in the wild. The post Philosopher David Pearce on Serious Wonder Podcast #3 appeared first on SERIOUS WONDER.

Welcome to the Serious Wonder podcast. This week Gray Scott joins up with Kevin and Kyle Russell, and Mat Lee. We bring you futuristic ideas and interviews with the intent to inspire awe and wonder. Serious Wonder. “Who’s your techno philosopher prophet?” – Gray Scott “We are a technology birthed from the earth.” – Gray Scott Links Discussed during the episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis http://www.simulation-argument.com/ https://www.seriouswonder.com/simulated-universe-theory Nick Bostrom – The Simulation Argument (Full) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHs‎ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Technology_Wants The post Techno-Philosopher Gray Scott on Serious Wonder Podcast Episode 2 appeared first on SERIOUS WONDER.

Futuristic Technology And Techno-Philosophy - Serious Wonder Podcast Episode #1 Episode 1 of the Serious Wonder Podcast Full Show notes Coming Soon* Links and topics discussed during the show: https://www.seriouswonder.com/intellectual-orgasm-the-new-digital-impulse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7TTubkvGu8 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134682-hackers-backdoor-the-human-brain-successfully-extract-sensitive-data https://www.seriouswonder.com/imagination-fornication-how-ideas-have-sex "The digital universe is not a passive place. We are constantly touching, pinching and rubbing our digital devices into submission, coaxing them into giving us the reward we desire.  You send out an idea, theory, or work of art and in return you receive a “like”, a mention or  re-Tweet. Welcome to your daily intellectual orgy. Your amygdala is primed and you are ready for a micro shot of intellectually inspired oxytocin. These little rewards create the new intellectual orgasm. I have these digital orgasms at least 100 times a day or more. My lover is usually a random stranger. They seduce me with pictures of far off lands and exotic foods, new images of the universe never before recorded, or new revelations from the field of science and technology. In return, I send out little temptations of techno-philosophy and futuristic observations. I have an intellectual orgasm when someone revels to me that I have “opened their mind” or given them “the courage to be curious again." - Gray Scott The post Futuristic Technology And Techno-Philosophy -Serious Wonder Podcast Episode #1 appeared first on SERIOUS WONDER.