[tt] [wta-talk] Transhumanism and regulation

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:00:37 +0200
To: World Transhumanist Association Discussion List <wta-talk at transhumanism.org>
Subject: Re: [wta-talk] Transhumanism and regulation
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Sorry my reply sent itself without giving me time to compose it.

Well it happened to people I know.

I often say that Fukuyama's:

"For the last several decades, a strange liberation movement has grown
within the developed world. Its crusaders aim much higher than civil
rights campaigners, feminists, or gayrights advocates. They want
nothing less than to liberate the human race from its biological
constraints. As "transhumanists" see it, humans must wrest their
biological destiny from evolution's blind process of random variation
and adaptation and move to the next stage as a species"

is the best short description of transhumanism that I have ever seen.
If I had never heard of transhumanism before, I would start a google
search immediately after reading these words, find one or another
transhumanist network and join it.

Fukuyama, Rifkin, Kass, or McKibben, have a quite good understanding
of  what transhumanism is ultimately about. I think some of them would
_be_ transhumanists if they had not already built their careers and
reputations on opposite views. They say, with clear plain simple and
understandable words, things similar to Fukuyama's definition above.
And I have known people whose reaction was "but wait a minute, this is
something _good_. Let's learn more...".

I believe we have become far too much concerned with acceptability and
political correctness. Let's take example from our critics and state,
in the simplest possible way and without any ambiguity, that
transhumanism is about leaving all limits behind, including mortality
and biological constrains, and move on to a cosmic destiny. Some
people will hate it, and some people will love it.

G.

On 7/7/07, Dale Carrico <dalec at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> > Many people become radical transhumanists after reading Fukuyama,
> > Rifkin, Kass, or McKibben,
>
> I seriously doubt it.
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