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Itās possible that I donāt understand what people mean by ātranshumanismā. Often people attach different meanings to words.
I tend to think people mean the act of augmenting the body by technological means. Does it mean something else?
I mean to reject what, say, Yuval Harari (sp?) promotes. Partially because it's dumb and immoral, but also because he's a psychopath.
Iām no fan of Harari either. To me, heās not transhumanist so much as anti-humanist.
Thatās the same thing Jimbo. Same exact thing. Donāt go fully Tranny, never go full tranny.
CBDC could also be a form of transhumanism if you want to go wider.
Be better. You are forgiven so far.
Harariās view, IIRC, is couched in a scarcity frame. Something like: resources are finite, therefore humanity must be downsized to fit. Then, motivated by this morality, he advocates technological means of carrying it out. Technological means of limitation, control, and in a word, death.
My moral view and baseline assumptions are opposite. Resources are incomprehensibly vast. Weāve only scratched the surface of what this world can provide, let alone the rest of the solar system. We should be doing all we can to increase the number of people and increase their quality of life. History shows that capitalism (private property, consensual exchange) is the engine which brings this about.
Technology is the natural extension of our biological bodies into the environment. We invent and use tools to become more than we were. Whether those tools pierce the body envelope, and whether they are merely rehabilitative vs cosmetic vs enhancements isnāt a crucial moral issue (to me).
The moral issue is whether such technologies are chosen. That is, that participants self-select by informed consent. Coercion and scarcity are the enemies, not technology.
Transgenderism is the prototypical transhumanism. The philosophical move of transhumanism is to separate the "I" from the body. Once you do that, anything is fair game if you wish to transcend the body for the sake of the disembodied mind or self.
Arguably, brain-augmenting implants aren't transhumanism, but mind uploading definitely is.