Jin's EDC blog » transhumanism https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling Just another Education and digital culture 2015 site Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:39:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Transhumanism v posthumanism https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/transhumanism-v-posthumanism-3/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/transhumanism-v-posthumanism-3/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:29:37 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=137

Google fight recorded by jindarling

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!

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/transhumanism-v-posthumanism-3/feed/ 0 How Drugs Helped Invent the Internet & The Singularity: Jason Silva on “Turning Into Gods” https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/how-drugs-helped-invent-the-internet-the-singularity-jason-silva-on-turning-into-gods/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/how-drugs-helped-invent-the-internet-the-singularity-jason-silva-on-turning-into-gods/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:25:06 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=135

notes on How drugs helped invent

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notes on The Coming Transhuman Era

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/16/the-coming-transhuman-era-jason-sosa-at-tedxgrandrapids-2/feed/ 0 Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:41:43 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=103 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.

 

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/feed/ 0 Transhumanism and space colonisation https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:37:48 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=100 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.

Author: jindarling

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/feed/ 0 ULab launched today You Must Change Your Life https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/rt-ottoscharmer1-ulab-launched-today-you-must-change-your-life-httpt-colm2za3pg51-via-huffpostedu-mscedc/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/rt-ottoscharmer1-ulab-launched-today-you-must-change-your-life-httpt-colm2za3pg51-via-huffpostedu-mscedc/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:33:22 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=98 RT @ottoscharmer1: #ULab launched today
You Must Change Your Life http://t.co/lM2Za3pG51 via @HuffPostEdu #mscedc

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/rt-ottoscharmer1-ulab-launched-today-you-must-change-your-life-httpt-colm2za3pg51-via-huffpostedu-mscedc/feed/ 0 Me, attempting to understand transhumanism and posthumanism https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/attempting-to-understand-transhumanism-and-posthumanism/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/attempting-to-understand-transhumanism-and-posthumanism/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:44:29 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=91 “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:

  • Transhumanism is the process of this transformation.
  • A “transhuman” is somebody who chooses to follow a path towards transhumanism.
  • “Posthumanism” describes mankind after the goal of transhumanism is realised.

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.

Author: jindarling

Bibliography

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].

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