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The Immortality of Writers is an Ancient Egyptian wisdom text likely to have been used as an instructional work in schools. It is recorded on the verso side of the Chester Beatty IV papyrus (BM 10684) held in the British Museum .
Chris Armstrong in the Marin Independent Journal wrote that the book is “a semi-political biography; it chronicles how transhumanism became an activist movement based on Mill Valley resident Zoltan Istvan’s popular U.S. presidential and California gubernatorial runs from 2014 to 2020.” [11] Peter Clarke at Merion West wrote that the book ...
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (/ ˈ ɛ t ɪ ŋ ər /; December 4, 1918 [1] – July 23, 2011 [2]) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. [3] [4] Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute [5] and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as the ...
Immortality of the mind is sometimes accomplished by periodically moving it to a new physical body, transferring either just the consciousness as in A. E. van Vogt's 1948 novel The World of Null-A or transplanting the entire brain as in Michael G. Coney's 1974 novel Friends Come in Boxes; [13] [35] the new body is a clone of the original person ...
Budd Wilkins from Slant Magazine awarded the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing, "Not quite a genre classic, The Asphyx is a mostly intriguing mashup of Victorian ghost story and steampunk revisionism that occasionally threatens to degenerate into inanity with its strident morality-play storyline and escalating improbability factor."
Peter van Inwagen (/ v æ n ɪ n ˈ w ɑː ɡ ən / van in-WAH-ghən; born September 21, 1942) is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a research professor of philosophy at Duke University each spring. [2]
Brian Michael Stableford (25 July 1948 – 24 February 2024) was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. [1]
Peter van Diest (Latinised as Petrus Diesthemius) was a medieval writer from the Low Countries. The late-15th-century morality play Elckerlijc is attributed to him. Elckerlijc , which was translated into English to become the famous Everyman , has come down to us in manuscripts that fail to mention the play's author.