Ben Hyink

Recipient, JBS Haldane Award

Ben Hyink has contributed to transhumanism activism through his work with the Transhumanist Student Network and by serving as an intern for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He received the JBS Haldane Award in 2007, presented by James Hughes at the Transvision awards ceremony. His essay "Personhood Rights," presents an argument for extending the status of personhood to non-humans, though not to entities that for all we know are mindless but happen to contain human DNA. The essay was first published in the Summer 2005 issue of the Northwestern University magazine The Protest.