“Transhumanism differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting from various sciences and technologies such as neuroscience and neuropharmacology, life extension, nanotechnology, artificial ultraintelligence, and space habitation, combined with a rational philosophy and value system.” -- Max More Having a positive view of mind uploading is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a transhumanist. Mind uploading has been posited as one of several routes toward indefinite human life extension. Other routes include [1] the periodic repair of the existing biological organism (Aubrey de Grey’s SENS project or the concept of nanomedicine) and [2] the augmentation of the biological organism with non-biological components (Ray Kurzweil’s view). Transhumanism, as a philosophy and a movement, embraces the lifting of the present limitations upon the human condition – limitations that arise out of the failures of human biology and unaltered physical nature.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:56:21 +0000
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