A Project About

Transhumanism
And
Its Aims
 CONTENTS
• What is it ?
Came up with the idea ?
• Who < Is a potential target ?

• Why ?

• When will this become available ?

 Short Definition
An international
movement that supports
the transformation of the
human body and thereby
the human condition
through advanced
technologies.
 TRANSHUMANISM AFFIRMS
• the possibility and desirability of
transcending the limitations of the
human body through applied reason
• especially by using technology to
eliminate aging and enhance human
intellectual, physical, and psychological
capacities.
Trans-humanists are humanists who
emphasize what we have the potential to
become through reason.
 TRANSHUMANISM
“Humanity will be radically changed by
echnology in the future. We foresee
he feasibility of redesigning the
human condition, including such
parameters as the inevitability of
aging, limitations on human and
artificial intellects, unchosen
psychology, suffering, and our
confinement to the planet earth.”

- Transhumanist Declaration
World Transhumanist Association
 THERE ARE PRECURSORS AND PROTO-
TRANSHUMANISTS
BETWEEN THE THIRTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH
CENTURIES WHO SEARCHED THE ELIXIR OF LIFE AND
PHILOSOPHER’S STONE. ONE SUCH PERSON WAS PICO
DELLA MIRANDOLA WHOSE 1486 ESSAY “ORATION ON
THE DIGNITY OF MAN” HAS LATELY MADE HIM A
SUBJECT OF MUCH CONTROVERSY OWING TO HIS
INSISTENCE THAT GOD IS THE CRAFTSMAN.
 THE TRANSHUMANIST FAQ WAS
DEVELOPED IN 1998 AND AUTHORED INTO
A FORMAL FAQ IN 1999 THROUGH THE
INSPIRATIONAL WORK OF
TRANSHUMANISTS, INCLUDING
ALEXANDER CHISLENKO, MAX MORE,
ANDERS SANDBERG, NATASHA VITA-
MORE, JAMES HUGHES, AND NICK
BOSTROM.
 SEVERAL PEOPLE CONTRIBUTED TO THE
DEFINITION OF TRANSHUMANISM,
WHICH WAS ORIGINATED BY MAX MORE.
GREG BURCH, DAVID PEARCE, KATHRYN
AEGIS, AND ANDERS SANDBERG KINDLY
OFFERED EXTENSIVE EDITORIAL
COMMENTS.
 “ TRANSHUMANISM
MAX MORE : IS BOTH A REASON-BASED
PHILOSOPHY AND A CULTURAL MOVEMENT THAT AFFIRMS
THE POSSIBILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF FUNDAMENTALLY
IMPROVING THE HUMAN CONDITION BY MEANS OF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. “
 “TRANSHUMANISTS
SEEK THE
CONTINUATION AND
ACCELERATION OF
THE EVOLUTION OF
INTELLIGENT LIFE
BEYOND ITS
CURRENTLY HUMAN
FORM AND HUMAN
LIMITATIONS BY
MEANS OF SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY, MAX MORE
GUIDED BY LIFE-
PROMOTING
PRINCIPLES AND
VALUES ”.
 Transhumanism an
the Posthuman Future
Will Technologica
Progress Get Us There

Ted Peter
 Progress within Evolution?
“…MAN IN THE DISTANT FUTURE WILL BE A FAR MORE PERFECT CREATURE THAN HE NOW IS.”
– CHARLES DARWIN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, P.77
 SOME EXPERTS SURMISE AS MANY
AS HALF OF AMERICANS WILL
HAVE IMPLANTS BY 2020. 
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF "2045"
INITIATIVE FOR SOCIETY
Conclusions

H+ needs more realism:

No amount of increased
technology or intelligence
will liberate us from sin.

The Bible promises

transformation: this
fosters an ethic that
promotes change in light
of future well-being.