Re: Defining Transhumanism

From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Date: Tue Oct 20 1998 - 18:54:50 MDT


Robin Hanson wrote:
> If this person thought instead that their decendants in a thousand years
> would be more than human, would we call them a transhumanist?

To call someone a transhumanist, I'd expect them to
        * want to personally exceed "human" limits
        * expect to have a reasonable chance of personally
          doing so (implies within their lifetime)

I think I'd consider someone who thinks humans might reasonbly
exceed human limits only sometime after this person's death a
proto-transhumanist or one interested in transhuman topics,
but not a transhumanist.

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