Tracy J. Trothen
School of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston
Tracy J. Trothen is a scholar at the School of Religion at Queen’s University in Kingston whose work covers ethics, spirituality and emerging technology. With Calvin Mercer she wrote Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), an introduction to the field whose chapter Mind Uploading: Cyber Beings and Digital Immortality examines the social identity of the uploaded person and the immortality demand behind the technology.
This site covers the book in the cyber beings and digital immortality analysis. The site assigns her no position in the substrate debate, because her covered work frames the cultural and ethical field rather than defending a theory of consciousness. Her ethics angle feeds this site’s welfare coverage, since the demand side of digital immortality shapes how societies will judge minds built on software.
Known for. Ethics of technology and spirituality, co-authoring Religion and the Technological Future
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