Unrecognizably Human: Empathic Perception and Augmented Others in Recent Science Fiction Film 
Shannon Foskett
University of Chicago 
Being, Technologically Human 
Meghan Roehll
University at Buffalo, SUNY 
Black Mirror's "The Entire History of You:" Memory As A Recording Device 
Mark Huston
Schoolcraft College
Electric Existentialism: The Sisyphean Subject in Greg Egan's Permutation City 
Brandon Fenton
York University 
Science Fiction Embedded in Neuroethics: Mindlessness and Nihilism 
Howard Ducharme
University of Akron 
The Quality of Life: The Implications of Augmented Personhood and Machine Intelligence in Science Fiction 
Damien Williams
Independent Scholar
The Informational Substance of Human Reality: Cognitive Growth, Healing, Communication, Radical Transformation 
Susan Castro
Wichita State University 
Experiencing Universal Interconnection through Science Fiction Minds 
Peter Buzby
Penn State University 
Dual-Process, Two-Minds, and Science Fiction 
Joshua Mugg
York University
Blockchain Thinkers and Smart Contracts to Take over the World? 
Melanie Swan
Kingston University London 
Mary Shelley’s Uncanny Consciousness: Frankenstein as a Thought Experiment for the 21st Century 
James Tierney
Oakland University 
Biology in/as Rhetoric in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction: A New Paradigm for Epistemology 
Meghan K. Riley
University of Waterloo
Evolution and Neuroethics in the Hyperion Cantos 
Brendan Shea
Rochester Community and Technical College 
Identity, Ethics, and Complex Decision Making in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 
Ellen Moll
Michigan State University
Moral Enhancements: What Does Science Fiction Teach Us about Moral Improvements? 
Jason Howard, David Bauer, and Jeffery Nyseth
Viterbo University
Apes with a Moral Code? Exploring the Boundaries of Moral Responsibility in The Planet of the Apes 
Paul Carron
Baylor University
