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
http://pobox.com/~sentience/AI_design.temp.html
http://pobox.com/~sentience/sing_analysis.html
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