Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

To what extent are humans adapted to contemporary technologies? - Coggle…

- - - - Brave new world
      - False happiness/ SOMA- Similar to social media dopamine
      - Technology being fundamental to generations and to class systems- Link to deprivation
    - - Brain plasticity
    - - Coined the term 'Transumanism'
        
        Extropainism (philosophy of Extropy)
        
        Advances in technology will let people live indefinitely
        
        Future advances in biotechnology
        
        Cryogenics
        
        Mind uploading
        
        Extropism- New philosophy fits the paradigms of the 21st century
        
        Anagram: Endless eXtension, Transcending Restriction, Overcoming Property, Intelligence, Smart machines
        
        Extropists desire to prolong their life span to a near-immortal state and exist in a world where artificial intelligence and robotics have made work irrelevant. As in utilitarianism, the purpose of one's life should be to increase the overall happiness of all creatures on Earth through cooperation
        
        The transhumanist perseverance in recognizing science and technology as the main assets of reformulation of the human runs the risk of techno reductionism:
        
        Wrestling with transhumanism
        
        Hans Moravec: upload conscienceness onto computers and leave bodies behind
        
        'Most versions (of transhumanism) share the assumption that technology is involved in a spiralling dynamic of coevolution with human development'
        'This assumption, known as technogenesis, seems to me compelling and indeed virtually irrefutable'
        'applying not only to contemporary humans but also homo sapiens across the eons, shaping the species biologically, psychologically, socially, and economically.
        
        Referred to as H+ OR >H
        
        Transhumanism, sometimes signified by "H" or "H+; is an international movement dedicated to the proposition that contemporary technosciences can enhance human capabilities and ameliorate or eliminate such traditional verities as mortality. It holds that human evolution is incomplete and that we have a responsibility to further our evolution through technology. As a sample of transhumanist rhetoric, consider the following passage from Max More, a prominent movement spokesperson:
        
        The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility
        
        and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition
        
        through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely
        
        available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human
        
        intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.
        
        We seek to void all limits to life, intelligence, freedom, knowledge, and happiness. Science, technology and reason must be harnessed to our extropic values to abolish the greatest evil: death. Death does not stop the progress of intelligent beings considered collectively, but it obliterates the individual. No philosophy of life can be truly satisfying which glorifies the advance of intelligent beings and yet which condemns each and every individual to rot into nothingness. Each of us seeks growth and the transcendence of our current forms and limitations. The abolition of aging and, finally, all causes of death, is essential to any philosophy of optimism and transcendence relevant to the individual. (4)
        -
        Max more
      - BANGING ARTICLE
      - Eugenics
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley
      - Hobbes
      - Improvement of the human condition
      - https://www.britannica.com/topic/transhumanism
      - Humanism/ posthumanism
      - https://existenz.us/volumes/Vol.8-2Ferrando.pdf
      - 'transhumanism, post humanism' - Google Scholar
- - - - Erratic and competitive nature of private organisations mimics Hobbes theory