Transhumanism:
Transhumanism is a movement that aims at upgrading humanity through technology and scientific advancements. The idea is to enhance the human body and mind, from the development of advanced life-like prosthetics to repair damaged functionality and the development of life-prolonging technologies, to customizing healthy body parts on demand and adding new functionality, and even merging humans and machines such as by uploading yourself into a computer or sharing your neurological hardware with an AI. Transhumanism means basically anything that would make humans faster, smarter, longer-lived and more versatile than nature could ever achieve within foreseeable time.
With its various scientific and philosophical ramifications, and its science-fiction like perspective on human life, transhumanism is one of the most visionary and radical approaches to future human evolution. It’s got a complex history, there are several branches to the transhumanist ideology today, and of course its riddled with controversy and disputes. There are long-winded and sometimes heated debates between its proponents and opponents, as well as between the different branches, ranging from doubts about the achievability and practicability of transhumanist goals, to concerns about the morality and ethics of modifying the human body and interfering with nature.
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Transhumanism is a movement that aims at upgrading humanity through technology and scientific advancements. The idea is to enhance the human body and mind, from the development of advanced life-like prosthetics to repair damaged functionality and the development of life-prolonging technologies, to customizing healthy body parts on demand and adding new functionality, and even merging humans and machines such as by uploading yourself into a computer or sharing your neurological hardware with an AI. Transhumanism means basically anything that would make humans faster, smarter, longer-lived and more versatile than nature could ever achieve within foreseeable time.
With its various scientific and philosophical ramifications, and its science-fiction like perspective on human life, transhumanism is one of the most visionary and radical approaches to future human evolution. It’s got a complex history, there are several branches to the transhumanist ideology today, and of course its riddled with controversy and disputes. There are long-winded and sometimes heated debates between its proponents and opponents, as well as between the different branches, ranging from doubts about the achievability and practicability of transhumanist goals, to concerns about the morality and ethics of modifying the human body and interfering with nature.
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Additional Web Resources:
- World Transhumanist Association
- Bio-Ethics.com
- Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies
- Huffington Post - Transhumanism
- 2030 - Our Transhuman future
- PostHuman - An introduction to Tranhumanism (video)
- RT - Transhumanism knocking on your door (video)
- Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution (full documentary)
- Singularity Symposium - What is Transhumanism? (Videos)
- Transhumanism's next frontier: Men as Mothers
- CRISPR and Transhumanism
- Transhumanism: The final religion
- Transhumanism and the Social Media Trap: (video)
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- World Transhumanist Association
- Bio-Ethics.com
- Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies
- Huffington Post - Transhumanism
- 2030 - Our Transhuman future
- PostHuman - An introduction to Tranhumanism (video)
- RT - Transhumanism knocking on your door (video)
- Bionics, Transhumanism, and the end of Evolution (full documentary)
- Singularity Symposium - What is Transhumanism? (Videos)
- Transhumanism's next frontier: Men as Mothers
- CRISPR and Transhumanism
- Transhumanism: The final religion
- Transhumanism and the Social Media Trap: (video)
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