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kleinbl00  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Honest Discussion About Transhumanism

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Here's a general definition of transhumanism:

    the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology.

That's courtesy define:transhumanism into Google. Here's a similarly pedigreed definition of the singularity:

    a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change.

What you're talking about is:

    There seems to be an underlying assumption that humanity has not and therefore cannot make it. And, since humanity has seemingly destroyed any hope of biologically evolving as a species, our only hope is to inject our consciousness into machines.

Which you defined as "transhumanism." Effectively, you wish to discuss the singularity, but misapplied your title. "Transhumanism" is basically cybernetics:

    the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things

...as applied to augmentation beyond the baseline. The whole "vanishing into the machine" thing is much more commonly discussed as the technological singularity.

I gave you two discussions - the first about transhumanism (because you asked) and the second about the singularity (because apparently giving you a conversation about transhumanism pissed you off).

So your turn - can you explain how this is not a response to what you posted?