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What would it take for us to believe in aliens?

Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes

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Will we ever be post-human?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

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FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

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FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

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Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

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To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

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The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.

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Technology on a leash

By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem

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How the cyborg deconstructed the modern worldview

The evolution of the cyborg in science and popular culture

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Religion and spirituality after the death of God

Secularism could lead to moral and spiritual nihilism that Nietzsche and Dostoevsky warn of. What are the socio-cultural consequences of this?

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The developing intrinsic value of nature

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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The sound and cost of silence

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology

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When we really become hybrid beings

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The virtual of Virtual Reality

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A plant-centered view of the world

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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The quest for autonomy in the digital age

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The depth of deep ecology

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The internet of thoughts

What would it take for us to believe in aliens?

Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes

Will we ever be post-human?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.