Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition.
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Transhumanism is a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman condition.
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Transhumanism was able to directly control a robot hand using his neural signals and to feel the force applied by the hand through feedback from the fingertips.
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Transhumanism experienced a form of ultrasonic sensory input and conducted the first purely electronic communication between his own nervous system and that of his wife who had electrodes implanted.
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Transhumanism objected to what he saw as scientism, fanaticism and nihilism by a few in advancing transhumanist causes.
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Transhumanism said that, throughout the 21st century, many humans would find themselves deeply integrated into systems of machines, but would remain biological.
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Transhumanism's characterizes these ideas as "quasi-scientific dreams and prophesies" involving visions of escape from the body coupled with "self-indulgent, uncontrolled power-fantasies".
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Transhumanism argues that the transhumanist program is an attempt to channel that desire into a scientific project on par with the Human Genome Project and achieve humanity's oldest hope, rather than a puerile fantasy or social trend.
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Transhumanism asserts that liberalism was founded not on the proposition of effective equality of human beings, or de facto equality, but on the assertion of an equality in political rights and before the law, or de jure equality.
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