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BCSSS Dialogue. April 12th 2017 “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism”

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures, Meetings

On April 12th 2017 the Bertalanffy Center invites to a discussion on Transhumanism introduced by a critical talk by Janina Loh “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism” and a statement “The Ghost of Transhumanism and the Sentience…

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Vienna 2012 | European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2012 (EMCSR 2012)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in emcsr, Meetings

From 10 to 13 April 2012 the Campus of the University of Vienna was the venue of the EMCSR 2012. 168 academics and practitioners attended the conference as well as 17 journalists (13 of whom were in training at the…

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