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So much more difficult to get a clear picture of posthumanism. Struggling to understand the differences, I get that it is a philosophical thing but philosophy and humanism are not stuff that I have studied before so a steep learning curve ahead of me. Still I have a couple of weeks, no need to do it all in one day!
Overview
Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on. Technology we don’t notice because it’s blended in with the fabric of the world, but would immediately take note of its absence if it became unavailable. (Ever tried to travel to another country on foot?) Technology needn’t be expensive — indeed, if a technology is truly effective it will pay for itself many times over.
Source: Lifeboat Foundation
via Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies.
Space colonisation is seen as a viable option by transhumanists to solve the problem of overpopulation on Earth. It would require technological innovation to achieve and to live in an atmosphere for which humans are unsuited to.
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“Transhumanism” is a term first used by Julian Huxley (1957).
As humans have become aware of the possibilities for improving themselves and eventually mankind as a whole. All humans will one day have their basic needs fulfilled, “poverty, disease, ill-health, over-work, cruelty [and] oppression”. Science will make this possible.
Very simply:
The terms transhumanism and posthumanism are also commonly used to describe a philosophy that involves the use of technology to improve/evolve the whole of humankind.
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Humanity+ (n.d.) Transhumanist FAQ. Available from: http://humanityplus.org/philosophy/transhumanist-faq/#answer_19 [Accessed 14 January 2015].
Huxley, J. (1957) “Transhumanism.” Available from: http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/huxley [Accessed 14 January 2015].