Prisco's ideas on virtual realities, technological immortality, mind uploading, and new scientific religions are extensively featured in the OUP books Apocalyptic AI - Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality[14] and Virtually Sacred - Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life.[15] Prisco's ideas are also extensively featured in the 2017 book Dynamic Secularization - Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science[16] and the 2019 book Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition: History, Philosophy and Current Status,[17] both published by Springer.
Prisco has been repeatedly at odds[citation needed] with technocriticDale Carrico who argues that transhumanism is technological utopianism turned into a new religious movement.[29] Prisco agrees but counters that transhumanism is an “unreligion” because it offers many of the benefits of religion without its drawbacks.[30]
Published worksedit
Booksedit
Prisco has published two books. The first, published in 2018 and again in 2020 with its second edition, is titled "Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology".[31] The second book, published in 2021, is titled Futurist spaceflight meditations.[32]
Book chaptersedit
Prisco has also written the chapter "Transcendent Engineering" for the 2013 book The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future[33] and the chapter "Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments" in the 2010 Springer book Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual.[34]
^Singler, B. (2020). "'Blessed by the algorithm': Theistic conceptions of artificial intelligence in online discourse (2020)". AI & Society. 35 (4): 945–955. doi:10.1007/s00146-020-00968-2. PMC7191134. PMID 32355422.
^"Order of Cosmic Engineers". Archived from the original on 2008-09-14.
^"Secondhand Smoke: Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion".
^"Giulio Prisco To Present in Second Life Conference on the Future of Religion". Archived from the original on 2008-08-20.
^"Un universo paralelo (y digital)". Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
^"Technological Transcendence: An Interview with Giulio Prisco".
^"Ten Cosmist Convictions (Mostly by Giulio Prisco)".
^"Amor Mundi: Giulio Prisco's Defense of Superlative Nonsense".
^Prisco, Giulio. Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology. ISBN 979-8610545066.
^Prisco, Giulio. Futurist spaceflight meditations. ISBN 979-8514323104.
^More, Max. The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. ISBN 978-1118334317.
^Bainbridge, William Sims. Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual. ISBN 978-1-84882-825-4.
External linksedit
Giulio Prisco's central website
Turing Church website
Turing Church newsletter & podcast
Tendencias21 (a Spanish language online magazine on futurism)