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'''Transhumanism''' (often rendered as '''H+''' or '''h+''') is a philosophy which seeks to use advance technology in order to augment the human condition, as well as encourage the usage of other, often emerging technology. This often includes hypothetical or nascent technologies such as digital immortality, advance cybernetics, and cryogenics.<ref | {{Message box/Stub}} | ||
'''Transhumanism''' (often rendered as '''H+''' or '''h+''') is a philosophy which seeks to use advance technology in order to augment the human condition, as well as encourage the usage of other, often emerging technology. This often includes hypothetical or nascent technologies such as digital immortality, advance cybernetics, and cryogenics.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Whatistranshumanism.org|title=What is Transhumanism?|url=https://whatistranshumanism.org/|retrieved=2022-8-17}}</ref> | |||
The ultimate goals of proponents of Transhumanism are often that of preparing for things such as the [[technological singularity]], which Transhumanists often claim to be both inevitable and beneficial to humanity, contributing to developing social scientific fields such as [[futurology]], attempting to gain some form of immortality, or otherwise some remedy for biological aging in the near-future, and researching hypothetical threats and rewards that many new technologies could bring to humanity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Antonio Regaladoarchive|newspaper=MIT Technology Review|title=The transhumanists who want to live forever|date=2019-8-16|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/16/133364/transhumanists-live-forever/|retrieved=2022-8-18}}</ref> | The ultimate goals of proponents of Transhumanism are often that of preparing for things such as the [[technological singularity]], which Transhumanists often claim to be both inevitable and beneficial to humanity, contributing to developing social scientific fields such as [[futurology]], attempting to gain some form of immortality, or otherwise some remedy for biological aging in the near-future, and researching hypothetical threats and rewards that many new technologies could bring to humanity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Antonio Regaladoarchive|newspaper=MIT Technology Review|title=The transhumanists who want to live forever|date=2019-8-16|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/16/133364/transhumanists-live-forever/|retrieved=2022-8-18}}</ref> | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
=== Early development === | |||
While the general ideal which Transhumanism strives for, the use of external means in order to overcome the base limitations of organic life, has itself existed for millennia (albeit almost exclusively in a [[Religion|religous]] or otherwise superstitious context) with works that were created as early as the [[Bronze age]], such as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', expressing themes of externally-gained immortality, the modern form of Transhumanism, that is, the usage of advance technology to gain both cognitive and physiological transcendence, began to truly appear in the 20th century CE. | While the general ideal which Transhumanism strives for, the use of external means in order to overcome the base limitations of organic life, has itself existed for millennia (albeit almost exclusively in a [[Religion|religous]] or otherwise superstitious context) with works that were created as early as the [[Bronze age]], such as the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', expressing themes of externally-gained immortality, the modern form of Transhumanism, that is, the usage of advance technology to gain both cognitive and physiological transcendence, began to truly appear in the 20th century CE. | ||
The first examples of early Transhumanism were initially influenced by the ideas of the geneticist [[John Burdon Sanderson Haldane|John B. S. Haldane]], whose works promoted the advancement of the scientific discipline of biology as a means of yielding great benefits for society. Haldane's ideas of biological advancements would later inspire people such as [[John Desmond Bernal|John D. Bernal]], who advocated for [[Space colonization|space colonisation]] and advance cybernetic technology to be employed. One of the most notable figures in the development of Transhumanism is [[Julian Huxley]], who greatly popularised the term "''transhumanism''" and wrote many notable works on the new philosophy.<ref>{{Citation|author=Peter Harrison; Joseph Wolyniak|year=2015|title=The History of 'Transhumanism'|title-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281298815_The_History_of_'Transhumanism'|pdf=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281298815_The_History_of_'Transhumanism'/fulltext/55f8c2e908ae07629ddf90ed/The-History-of-Transhumanism.pdf|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/notesj/gjv080|trans-lang=English}}</ref> | The first examples of early Transhumanism were initially influenced by the ideas of the geneticist [[John Burdon Sanderson Haldane|John B. S. Haldane]], whose works promoted the advancement of the scientific discipline of biology as a means of yielding great benefits for society. Haldane's ideas of biological advancements would later inspire people such as [[John Desmond Bernal|John D. Bernal]], who advocated for [[Space colonization|space colonisation]] and advance cybernetic technology to be employed. One of the most notable figures in the development of Transhumanism is [[Julian Huxley]], who greatly popularised the term "''transhumanism''" and wrote many notable works on the new philosophy.<ref>{{Citation|author=Peter Harrison; Joseph Wolyniak|year=2015|title=The History of 'Transhumanism'|title-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281298815_The_History_of_'Transhumanism'|pdf=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281298815_The_History_of_'Transhumanism'/fulltext/55f8c2e908ae07629ddf90ed/The-History-of-Transhumanism.pdf|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/notesj/gjv080|trans-lang=English}}</ref> | ||
== See also == | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Futurism]] | * [[Futurism]] | ||
*[[Posthumanism]] | * [[Posthumanism]] | ||
*[[Cybernetics]] | * [[Cybernetics]] | ||
==References== | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Transhumanism]] | [[Category:Transhumanism]] | ||
[[Category:Futurology]] | [[Category:Futurology]] | ||