[extropy-chat] The Church on Man-Machine Hybridization

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

The Third-Millennium Spiritual Film Festival is focusing on the
relationship between man and machines.
The initiative, which will be complemented by a study congress
sponsored by the pontifical councils for Social Communications and for
Culture, will reflect on the ethical questions posed by this
phenomenon.
The congress, entitled "Man-Machine Hybridization, Identity and
Conscience in Postmodern Cinema," is being held today and Thursday in
St. Mary of the Assumption University (LUMSA) of Rome.
Read the article at the URL below, there are moderate and surprisingly
reasonable statements of representatives of the Church, e.g. modern
man "cannot do without all that is the product of his intelligence and
creativity, of art and technology, of engineering and literature, of
reason and skill."
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=62884