will the H+/transhuman technologies that our accelerating future anticipates enable us to increase our empathy with others or will their use decrease our ability to understand ‘the other’ that exists outside our own selves, families, communities and cultures?

Buddhism seeks to improve conditions not through transcendence, but rather acceptance.

V.R.Manoj

It seems you can’t go anywhere in Pop Culture these days without running into some variation of the Post-Human Scenario. From The Matrix to Houellebecq to Battlestar Galactica, the idea that humanity will soon be overrun by its immortal, A.I.-enhanced offspring is rampant.

The Techsattva is a netcast that attempts to make sense of several systems of thought at once, including contemplative practice, conscious business, trans-humanism, technology, psychology, and more. By denying the completeness of any one system of thought, theory, or ideology the Techsattva hopes to step back far enough from all of these theories to get a view of connections that exist between them.

AI Buddha versus AI Big Brother,Voluntary Joyous Growth,the Global Brain Singularity Steward Mindplex,and Other Issues of Transhumanist Ethical Philosophy

The three of us are launching the IEET Cyborg Buddha Project to combine our efforts and promote discussion of the impact that neuroscience and emerging neurotechnologies will have on happiness, spirituality, cognitive liberty, moral behavior and the exploration of meditational and ecstatic states of mind.