transhumanism

plural transhumanisms · alternative H+ · alternative h+ · alternative H-plus

1. countableuncountableA philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.

   Near-synonym: posthumanism (in one of its senses)

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   Those who favor transhumanism speak the language of individual choice and freedom from institutional authoritarianism; those who challenge it speak the language of human dignity and human nature as embodied in the individual.

   2011, Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz, The Techno-Human Condition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 87

   Julian Huxley coined the term “transhumanism” in 1957, when he wrote that in the near future, “the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man.”⁵

   2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 13

   Synonyms: posthumanism