The future of death and dying

Question 1

Technoscientific culture

Answer 1

How science is socially constituted and historically situated, including through its creation via material networks

Question 2

Technoscientific immortality

Answer 2

• Transhumanism: overcoming death→ never ever dying.
• Making death redundant, thereby an option
  secular (scientific, rational, based in science)

Question 3

The War on Death

Answer 3

Concept = to not age

Question 4

Biohacking

Answer 4

• Een DIY burgerlijke wetenschap waaruit body-modification voortkomt met technologie (Yetisen, 2018).
• Het lichaam wordt anders gemaakt dan ‘normaal’, bijvoorbeeld door chips.

–> Dit heeft discussies over culturele waarden, medische ethiek, veiligheid en consent in transhumanistische technologie beïnvloed.

Question 5

Grinders

Answer 5

• Een subcultuur van biohacking →hetzelfde als punks.
• Enkel biohacking om het te laten zien, geen nut of winst. (bv magneten in vingers)

Question 6

Cryonics

Answer 6

Een dood lichaam invriezen in de hoop dat toekomstige ontwikkelingen in medicijnen en technologie de lichamen weer tot leven kan wekken

(Romain)

Question 7

Profiteers

Answer 7

• Insurance companies, companies that offer the preservations
• Profit from business to research (bij sommige bedrijven, vb Berlijn)

(Romain)

Question 8

Consciousness transfer

Answer 8

Russian transhumanism movement engendered competing practises of immortality as well as ontological debates over the immortal body and person

(Bernstein)

Question 9

Russian transhumanism

Answer 9

Humans have to be malleable (kneedbaar) and be an active agent in self-evolution. (itt russian orthodox vision, waarin de keuzevrijheid (agency) uiteindelijk eerder goddelijk dan menselijk is en waarin de nadruk wordt gelegd op de onveranderlijkheid van het fysieke lichaam in afwachting van de uiteindelijke opstanding en het eeuwige leven)

(Bernstein)

Question 10

Selfhood

Answer 10

In een wereld waar mensen en technologie zo met elkaar samengaan en de mens afhankelijk wordt van de technologie en deze gebruikt om het doel van onsterfelijkheid te behalen, wat is dan nog zelfheid?

(Bernstein)

Question 11

Medical anthropology

Answer 11

• Seeing the human from multidimensional and ecological perspectives, focussing on the interaction of biological and cultural factors in health and disease.
  —> 2 soorten medical: Enhancement + healing

(Farman)

Question 12

Convergence technologies; NBIC

Answer 12

Nano, bio, informative, cognitive

(Farman)

Question 13

Nano

Answer 13

Nanobots replacing and repairing cell - at the micro/nano-level bio becomes nano

(Farman)

Question 14

Cryopreserving the brain (neuro)

Answer 14

Is the illustrative of the idea of convergence: not only working together (nano and bio), but becoming the same. Merging
–> je lichaam zien beyond carbon

(Farman)

Question 15

Cryoprotectants

Answer 15

Chemical process → wash out the blood and insert cryoprotectants (freezing preservers)

(Farman)

Question 16

Drie concepten biohacking:

Answer 16

1. Corporate medical futurism
2. Biohacking
3. Grinding

(Boss)

Question 17

1. Corporate medical futurism

Answer 17

Science that is founded by organizations and institutions that have economic interest in the long life. For example the medical institutions. Deeply interwoven with military and transnational investment.

(Boss)

Question 18

2. Biohacking

Answer 18

Inclusive of every-thing from yoga tot implanted medical device network security (overkoepelende term)
Grens: mindfulness wordt ook gezien als biohacking (van de mind) → is het nuttig?

(Boss)

Question 19

3. Grinding

Answer 19

Punk version, don’t necessarily have a purpose. Not for profit. (For example the light in the hands, ‘just because you can’)
–> Boss: brings political gaze to The War of Death: Elites VS Grassroots (aka common people)
–> Boss: The contemplation of death as the great enemy is a key motivator for participants in the war (of death)

(Boss)

Question 20

Punks

Answer 20

Verdienen geen geld, maar maken een statement
- ‘countered the war on death with a celebration of life’

(Boss)

Question 21

Profiteers

Answer 21

Beauty industry en lifestyle industry verdienen geld

(Boss)

Question 22

The Terasem Hypotheses

Answer 22

The Terasem Hypotheses

(Eriksen)

Question 23

Neuromatic

Answer 23

A concept he employs/invents to describe the person who is its brain

(Modern)

Question 24

Propositional logic

Answer 24

The brain is a computer

Question 25

What sets humans apart according to Thomas Willes and Macullloch and Pits?

Answer 25

Thomas Willes: states that the soul sets humans apart (god)
Macullloch and Pits: states that mathematic sets humans apart (complex computer brain)

Question 26

What does Thomas Willes says about understanding the informatic self?

Answer 26

Philosopher: Thomas Willis = Father of neuroscience
- His main worry: world is going to end
- His ideas were emerging from religious cults
- Scientists were looking from something sarcenet
- States that the soul is in the brain: immortal soul