Of Science and Man..........

Transhumanism (sometimes symbolized by >H or H+),[1] a term often used as a synonym for "human enhancement", is an international, intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to enhance human mental and physical abilities and aptitudes, and overcome what it regards as undesirable and unnecessary aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death. Transhumanist thinkers study the possibilities and consequences of developing and using human enhancement techniques and other emerging technologies for these purposes. Possible dangers, as well as benefits, of powerful new technologies that might radically change the conditions of human life are also of concern to the transhumanist movement. - wikipedia.
This was the next development in Science I was talking about the other day. Having more detractors than supporters, critics like to call this the world's most dangerous idea. By this a person achieves posthuman status, a state which is termed by experts as one whose basic capacities so radically those of present humans as to be no longer unambigously human by our current standards. Sounds familiar? Why do I keep thinking of the T-800 at this point?
The difference between the posthuman and other hypothetical sophisticated non-humans is that a posthuman was once a human, either in its lifetime or in the lifetimes of some or all of its direct ancestors. As such, a prerequisite for a posthuman is a transhuman, the point at which the human being begins surpassing his or her own limitations, but is still recognisable as a human person or similar. Posthumans could be a symbiosis of human and artificial intelligence, or uploaded consciousnesses, or the result of making many smaller but cumulatively profound technological augmentations to a biological human, i.e. a cyborg. Some examples of the latter are redesigning the human organism using advanced nanotechnology or radical enhancement using some combination of technologies such as genetic engineering, psychopharmacology, life extension therapies, neural interfaces, advanced information management tools, memory enhancing drugs, wearable or implanted computers, and cognitive techniques. In other words, we have to perfect transhumanism first before we could get to this stage, since the biological form is still at the centre stage and the study of human enhancements would be essential.
Question is, are the detractors entirely wrong in their citations of possible hazards and disasters that could envelop the earth should this take off. Numerous reasons are cited, some being social, ethical, moral issues...a variety of 'em all from varying standpoints. There was this interesting film I once saw in Tamil, titled 'Nalaiya Manithan'. Probably a rip off from the Terminator series, we have a dude who was resurrected through a new-age drug yet to be tested and ends up becoming an unstoppable psychotic killer on a muderous spree.
Well the 'woods' always like to play this up by portraying superhuman status to equate killing in Columbia high school. But we can't simply ignore the dangers now, can we?

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