Re: Defining Transhumanism
Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:54:50 -0700
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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