{"id":7577,"date":"2017-11-12T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2017-11-12T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:54:54","slug":"second-enlightenment-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/11\/second-enlightenment-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Enlightenment Salon &#8211; G. Stolyarov II, Bill Andrews, Bobby Ridge, and Scott Jurgens Discuss the Convergence of Technological Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Gennady Stolyarov II<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Bill Andrews<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Bobby Ridge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Scott Jurgens<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6-muwId6ao\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II invited Dr. Bill Andrews (the U.S. Transhumanist Party\u2019s Biotechnology Advisor), Bobby Ridge (the U.S. Transhumanist Party\u2019s Secretary-Treasurer), and Scott Jurgens to his Second Enlightenment Salon, where they shared their thoughts on emerging life-extension research, advances in prosthetics and orthotics, philosophy of science, brain-computer interfaces, and how technologies from a variety of fields are converging to bring about a paradigm shift in the human 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