Re: Defining Transhumanism

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 19 1998 - 21:56:35 MDT


Transhumanism is the idea that future technology will probably improve
dramatically on the human body and the human mind. We or our descendants, in
five years or five hundred, may transcend so many limitations that we will no
longer be recognizably human - or even mortal.

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        sentience@pobox.com         Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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