Notable links for April
A roundup of work I didn’t regret checking out this month.
In the past, I’ve dropped notable links at the bottom of each monthly issue. I’m changing this approach, as I think it diminishes the focus of the issues themselves. From now on, I’ll send out a separate email near the end of the month, with links I think are worth checking out.
Here’s what I have this month:
Tying in closely with what I’ve been considering in the past few series of issues, Robin Phillips offers five simple but profound ways to decrease our device dependence (and increase our ability to live in the real world):
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
“Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.”
”The Innovation achieved here at scale is in the way government conceives its subjects not as citizens whose considered consent must be secured, but as particles to be steered through a science of behavior management that relies on our pre-reflective biases. The glee and sheer repetition with which this diminished picture of the human subject was trumpeted by journalists and popularizers in the 2010s indicates that it has some moral appeal quite apart from its intellectual merits — perhaps it’s the old Enlightenment thrill at disabusing human beings of their pretensions to specialness whether as made in the image of God or as the rational animal as an Aristotle.”
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That’s all for this month.
Bnonn