From Wikipedia:
"Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human mental and physical abilities and aptitudes, and ameliorate what it regards as undesirable and unnecessary aspects of the human condition, such as stupidity, suffering, disease, aging and involuntary death."
So, how do you feel about the subject considering your standpoint on spirituality and religion?
2007-08-22 20:05:13 · 7 answers · asked by dead_elves 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
On the one hand I agree with "death's in love with us", and for a long time held exactly that belief - that it is ghoulish and foolhardy.
You could argue though that modern medicine, knowledge about nutrition, transplants and blood transfusions are all crude transhumanism. In our natural state we'd have lived about 40 years and died of old age, barring the all-too-frequent violent deaths, plagues or infection our ancestors had to deal with.
2007-08-22 22:49:07 · update #1
Transhumanism sounds just like humanism to me. If you value something, you want to improve it. The Ethical Society, of which I am a member, is dedicated to just that. So this would all be consistent.
But notice that you needed to specify "involuntary death," and not death per se. Fact is, if there were no death, we would be extremely miserable, because the world would quickly become over-crowded beyond all reason. Death is a necessary part of our circumstances AT THIS TIME. Once space travel and other methods of expansion (possibly including some sort of teleportation) are developed sufficiently, we could all live as long as we wanted to. We can't now. And I suspect few of us would want to if it meant a prolonged period of feeble old age.
2007-08-23 06:09:02 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to me, it sounds dangerous. the earth and nature is what gives you life, and this sounds a bit anti-nature. I'm all for progress, but how far are they going? it sounds a little Nazi-ish too.
2007-08-23 05:28:43 · answer #2 · answered by Me. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is dangerus to think we can change people to fit what we think is best. we need to learn to live together and to help those less able than us.
2007-08-23 03:16:54 · answer #3 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its the way of the future.
2007-08-23 03:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where do I join?
2007-08-23 03:34:31 · answer #5 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
interested is how i feel?
2007-08-23 07:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by beantown10955 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
is it anything like a transvestite???
2007-08-23 04:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋