» creativity http://www.catboant.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Human is Not Limited to Flesh … http://www.catboant.com/2009/10/16/human-is-not-limited-to-flesh/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/10/16/human-is-not-limited-to-flesh/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:52:16 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=241 … says Martine Rothblatt, an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. I would add “futurist” and “borderliner” – both in a very positive sense. I’ve never met somebody who is so clear and precise about the future, which is so far away from most of us! Borders are something which doesn’t seem to exist in her life.

Our topics: transhumanism, consciousness of machines, immortality, transgenderism …

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/10/16/human-is-not-limited-to-flesh/feed/ 1 Creativity and Human Culture http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/08/liane-gaboras-take-on-reinventing-the-sacred/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/03/08/liane-gaboras-take-on-reinventing-the-sacred/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:17:24 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=134 Liane Gabora is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. In 2009 she is Associate Director of the PACE Center at Tufts University. She has over 70 publications and has given lectures worldwide on creativity and in what sense culture constitutes an evolutionary process. She has held research grants from Foundation for the Future, the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Flemish Government of Belgium. She is working on a book titled “Dawn of the Creative Mind: The Origin and Evolution of Human Culture”.
Parts of her theory are influenced by Stuart’s work – you can easily see in the video how familiar Liane is with his ideas. Richard and I liked very much her interpretation of the “adjacent possible”.

Liane has also written a “metaphysical comedy” about her own vision of a naturalistic God. Nice piece!

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