{"id":2025,"date":"2009-12-13T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-best-of-the-guests\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:06:00","slug":"the-best-of-the-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/the-best-of-the-guests.php","title":{"rendered":"The best of the guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hearty thank you goes out to all the guest bloggers who contributed to <span>Sentient Developments<\/span> in 2009. Here are my favorite of their articles from the past year:<\/p><ul><li>Russell Blackford: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/01\/guest-blogger-russell-blackford-on.html\">On the baggage of transhumanism<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/10\/pigliucci-on-science-and-scope-of.html\">Pigliucci on science and the scope of skeptical inquiry<\/a><\/li><li>David Eagleman: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/02\/will-you-perceive-event-that-kills-you.html\">Will you perceive the event that kills you?<\/a><\/li><li>David Brin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/03\/will-we-uplift-animals-to-sapiency.html\">Will we \"uplift\" animals to sapiency<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/11\/how-americans-spent-themselves-into.html\">How Americans spent themselves into ruin... but saved the world<\/a><\/li><li>David Pearce: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/04\/abolitionist-project.html\">The Abolitionist Project: Using biotechnology to abolish suffering in all sentient life<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/05\/world-without-suffering.html\">A world without suffering<\/a><\/li><li>Milan M. Cirkovic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/05\/assessing-solipsist-solutions-to-fermi.html\">Assessing solipsist solutions to the Fermi Paradox<\/a><\/li><li>Athena Andreadis: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/05\/if-i-cant-dance-i-dont-want-to-be-part.html\">If I Can&rsquo;t Dance, I Don&rsquo;t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution!<\/a><\/li><li>Michael Anissimov: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/06\/dismiss-gainism.html\">Dismiss Gaianism<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/06\/eliminating-all-pain-forever.html\">Eliminating all pain, forever<\/a><\/li><li>Natasha Vita-More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/06\/interpretive-dance-of-transhumanist.html\">Interpretive dance of the transhumanist future<\/a><\/li><li>Edward Miller: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/07\/how-to-redesign-our-communities-for.html\">How to redesign our communities for the internet age<\/a><\/li><li>Casey Rae-Hunter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/10\/bright-side-of-nuclear-armament.html\">The bright side of nuclear armament<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/10\/neurodiversity-vs-cognitive-liberty.html\">Neurodiversity vs. Cognitive Liberty I<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/10\/neurodiversity-vs-cognitive-liberty_16.html\">II<\/a><\/li><li>Linda MacDonald Glenn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2009\/11\/call-1-800-new-organ-by-2020.html\">Call 1-800-New-Organ, by 2020?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_6753820-3304934856604239466?l=www.sentientdevelopments.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?i=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?i=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/SentientDevelopments?a=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_SentientDevelopments?i=TlZWkncr0W0:hqLYStQc7Z0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2ebbd_TlZWkncr0W0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearty thank you goes out to all the guest bloggers who contributed to Sentient Developments in 2009. Here are my favorite of their articles from the past year:Russell Blackford: On the baggage of transhumanism &amp; Pigliucci on science and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/the-best-of-the-guests.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}