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Transhumanism

  • 09-06-2018 10:03pm
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    Fathom
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    What is transhumanism? Is it a form of what the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy labels "Human Enhancement?" Or does it fall into a different philosophical domain? Wikipedia suggests: "Transhumanism is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology." Your thoughts?


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    Is transhumanism still relevant, or has it been replaced today, and tomorrow, by posthumanism? Katherine Hayles in How We Become Posthuman suggests humans are being merged with their programmes and machines. Function rather than form will be the focus, the human being just one system intertwined with other systems. Kevin LaGrandeur in What is the Difference between Posthumanism and Transhumanism discusses this in greater detail in an online publication by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 28 July 2014.


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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Is transhumanism still relevant, or has it been replaced today, and tomorrow, by posthumanism?
    They are defined differently. Both persist today. Tomorrow?


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    Would Russian doping of their athletes to increase performance in the last two winter games be a form of human enhancement and/or transhumanism?


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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Would Russian doping of their athletes to increase performance in the last two winter games be a form of human enhancement and/or transhumanism?
    Sports doping falls under human enhancement (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Specifically biomedical interventions. Cheating and breaking the rules of the sport have been cited as moral and rules violations. If the rules were changed, would the sport change?


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    Fathom wrote: »
    Sports doping falls under human enhancement (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Specifically biomedical interventions. Cheating and breaking the rules of the sport have been cited as moral and rules violations. If the rules were changed, would the sport change?
    Makes me wonder if biomedical interventions (e.g., drugs, doping) may be included in kinesthesiology; i.e., the medical and therapeutic study of the movement of muscles and joints to improve sports performance?


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    BS in Kinesiology & Health, University of Texas at Austin: "The field of kinesiology consists of biomechanical, physiological, psychological, managerial, epidemiological, rehabilitative, and sociocultural approaches to the study of human movement and personal and public health." Physiological and biomechanical may address biomedical too. Unsure. Human enhancement should apply.


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