From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 10:16:16 MDT
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Yes, however it is a good idea not to dismiss the use of technologies
> like this out of hand. What distinguishing characteristics do we use
> to decide what technologies, when applied to a person, make that
> person 'transhuman'? Must they be electronic? Must they be active and
There are no transhumans around today. There might be some around
tomorrow. Meaning, you'll never meet any. (Unless you or them can do time
travel).
> responsive to feedback and control by the user? Must they be
> permanently attached? Or must they simply be features that allow a
> person to achieve better than normal human performance? For example,
> contact lenses that give you 20/10 vision, or that have a zoom ability
> that actively responds to the eyes attempts to focus in on targets at
> distances?
I would put transhuman at 'so heavily modified or designed from scratch
you can't associate it with the point of departure, as basic human bauplan
for the last few 100 kYrs'.
Meaning, you wouldn't recognize it as human, or even a being, if you
happened to run into it.
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