Transhumanism is defined as "the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology".
What are your guys' thoughts on this? Personally I think that if done right and so it's widespread for everyone (without just a few people having control over it and the like), I feel like improving ourselves with technology and such would be great. I'd want a bionic eye anyway providing no damage would be done to my other one. XD
I know that some say "it's man trying to become God", but I wouldn't say we'd become like God unless we could create things in the blink of an eye or the like, which we can't do because physics. Improving ourselves through our endeavors shouldn't be a problem if it's done so it's available to everyone and people can't abuse it.
Transhumanism and interfacing will allow you to do things physics says should be impossible for humans - like telekinesis, telepathy, technopathy, healing factors, durability, etc. The commentary on the possibility in physics is a result on
our own shortcomings in understanding the laws of the natural world. If we can't figure it out with our science, then it is not possible. This is a myopic view of the natural world, but has dominated academia.
Transhumanism has been existent since the antediluvian world. It was one of the reasons God destroyed almost everyone - because
people were manipulating their genetics in order to be something other than a natural human.
If you naturally mutate like an X-Man, or an "eclipse" happens and "activates" latent potential, then that is a completely different story.
If we are talking about manually altering the genetics of an organism in order to propentiate and increase the natural abilities of a human (or provide "new" ones,) then I believe that is absolutely dangerous.
There will NEVER be enough ethical finesse in treating transhumanism. It exists now in various militaries; when introduced on a consumer level, it will categorically create a cliche war between "natural" humans, and altered humans.
Letting other humans who share the same magnitude of error as the next person change your genetics seems reckless; there will be NO WAY of ascertaining the ethics of such a thing. No way.
Also, it would such if those people in the bible whose tongues dissolved in their mouths - who begged for death but couldn't find it - were "altered humans" with a healing factor. So, for something like a massive ejection of charged particles, or a fire, or even a war zone - those who are altered humans for the sake of longevity will not "die" like regular humans would. They would heal, feel the pain, heal, etc. until either the rate of destruction outpaces the rate of regeneration, or the event is over. (Altered humans for longevity, for example, may not even undergo the merciful biological process of shock.)
And, that is just altering for longevity - which has already been introduced into the mainstream consumer market. Interfacing your brain with technology is begging to have your brain hacked. And, don't forget developers of the technology will be sure to attach objects of further commercial generation - everything from advertisements to directives.
Transhumanism is a very dangerous thing even if you are not a theist. I would never trust another human to alter my genetics, or to treat transhumanism as ethical
as all of us would require.
