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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Transhumanist sets goalposts for the future

American political science commentator Francis Fukuyama once called transhumanism the world’s most dangerous idea. Whether this is true depends on your aspirations for society. But a brief article in Discover by a staffer with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a transhumanist thinktank, Kyle Munkittrick, at least shows that society will be very different if transhumanism gets traction.

As you might expect with such a controversial philosophy, there are different schools of transhumanism. What Munkittrick offers is a diagnostic chart for recognising the transhumanist society when it arrives. Briefly, here are his criteria:

Read More: http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9649/

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