Judaism in the Age of Cyborgs AKA Jeuromancer

Technological disruptions have, in the last decade, upended countless industries - most notably entertainment and news media - leaving business leaders scrambling to preserve their dying models. Could the same be in store for religion as well? Learn how advancements in neuroscience and neurotheology could render Judaism obsolete in the coming future.

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4. Transhumanism (h+)
11. wetware
45. How God Changes Your Brain Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman
74. Religious thinkers and ethicists must engage transhumanism rather than dismissing it as science-fiction. —Hava Tirosh Samuelson
75. Although Judaism sees humans as created in the image of God who act as partners of God, it also reminds us that we are not God. Because we are not all-knowing we must take care not harm ourselves, other humans, and the rest of the world in the very effort to improve the world. Most Jewish legal thinkers, theologians, and ethicists welcome scientific research as potentially fruitful and hold that contemporary interpretation of Jewish law must be informed by science and technology. But they also maintain that scientific means and ends have to be evaluated by religious values; science does not replace religion nor does it function as a substitute for religion. —HTS