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transhumanism
| If it's some as biohacking, i'm in xd
| Kinda want that to happen one day
| Can human emotions adapt to whatever form our transhuman vessels will be? Because as much as depression sucks, I'm kind of addicted to serotonin and dopamine.
| >>691378
Bluntly speaking, transhumanism is where we enhance our bodies - the bodies we are born with. One could say that simple glasses or contact lenses are a step into transhumanism.
Replacing 100% of one's body or going full digital brain is far end. You can say that before we get there, we should have enough experience with adapting to artificial limbs, organs or enhanced senses.
| I'm not against it necessarily but for sure the rich and powerful are going to get robo limbs waaay before any of us
| >>691450
Well those are still some expensive hardware.
You have a point, of couse, but I think >>b17dee
meant that once body modification/transhumanism actually upgrades you it will only/mostly be available to the ultra rich.
Current tech mostly focuses on improving disabled people but they're still not on par with regular arms for example.
| Once genetic manipulation and intelligence enhancements becomes reality lots of people will definetly want to keep it to themselves.
Just look at USA and Britan for example where they're trying to make good education/good grades something that mostly priviliged kids can get.
These people tries to keep the edge and use it for themselves and their offspring. They will probably do the same once we can upgrade ourselves.
| >>691553
Right now my main issue with body augmentations is that it's mostly signaturing oneself. Placing electronic ID chips under skin, for example. This is not enhancing my senses or capabilities, and only serves my masters with easier cattle management.
Non invasive things, like Google Glass, are limited and developed by the monopolistic global company that restricts its usage to itself.
Nothing like the self-hacked body enhancements or cyberdecks is in sight.
| any sort of augmentation happening on a societal scale is probably bad for the average individual but good for societal institutions/corporations. it further specializes people and increases their work output, and in the case of neural implants, could even reduce individuality.
desiring transhumanism means desiring to be more than human. to surpass humanity. what comes after being human? continued...
| single cells specialized and joined together, became more than single cells. societal structures or groups of people often mimic biology. so, I expect that after being human, we shall be corporations and governments, or small parts of them. perhaps we can say we're all the way there already.
luckily for us, according to some quick research, a little less than 1/5 of the earth's biomass is still unicellular.
| >>691742 mb, forgot this was the cyberpunk discussion board. transhumanism is good because cyberpunk is good.
| >>691767
Don't respond to his posts. He's been shitposting all night and even defended being toxic in that apology-thread.
| >>691768
Who are you? Who is this person? IDs are only temporary and work for one thread only. We're just 3 intelligent people pretending to be from different countries.
| >>691982
Oh, don't get me wrong, it is not.
Nonetheless, without janitorial access, do you know a way to recognize posters? IDs can be reset, you shold know that by now.
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| Your thoughts and feels about transhumanism. Discuss.
What is transhumanism?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism_in_fiction