Portal:Transhumanism

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Template:/box-header Transhumanism is an 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 death. Described by some as the world's most dangerous idea and by others as a "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity". (more…) Template:/box-footer Technicians prepare a patient for cryopreservation. Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and other animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. Human cryopreservation is not currently reversible. In the United States, cryonics can only be legally performed on humans after pronounced legally dead. The rationale for cryonics is that the process may be reversible in the future if performed soon enough, and that cryopreserved people are not dead by the modern information-theoretic definition of death. (more…) Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header ▼ Transhumanism ► Cosmism ► Singularitarianism ► Transhumanists Main article: List of basic transhumanism topics Technologies which have become the focus of transhumanism: Anti-aging Artificial intelligence Bionics Biotechnology Brain-computer interface Cognitive science Cryonics Cyberware Cyborg Designer baby Emerging technologies Genetic engineering Cloning Human cloning Therapeutic cloning Human enhancement Human-machine interface Information technology Life extension Mind uploading Mind transfer Nanotechnology Molecular nanotechnology Buckyballs Molecular assemblers Neurohacking Personal development Prosthetics Rejuvenation Robotics Reprogenetics Simulated reality Space colonization Suspended animation Wetware hacking Main article: Outline of transhumanism Transhumanist concepts Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance • Cognitive liberty • Democratic transhumanism • Differential technological development • Emerging technologies • Existential risks • Extropy • Extropianism • Futures studies • Futurology • Friendly artificial intelligence • Human condition • Human enhancement • Human extinction • Immortality • Indefinite lifespan • Liberal eugenics • Libertarian transhumanism • Longevity • Megatrajectory • Mind children • Morphological freedom • Neophile • Noosphere • Omega Point • Participant evolution • Posthuman • Posthuman God • Posthumanity • Procreative beneficence • Procreative liberty • Proactionary Principle • Rejuvenation (aging) • Singularitarianism • Superhuman • Technogaianism • Technological evolution • Technological singularity • Technophilia • Techno-utopia • Techno-utopianism • Theory of everything • Three Laws of Transhumanism • Transgenderism • Übermensch • Utopia • World view Notable persons in the field of transhumanism Anders Sandberg • Antonei Csoka • Aubrey de Grey • Danila Medvedev • David Pearce • FM-2030 • Frank J. Tipler • George Dvorsky • Giulio Prisco • Hans Moravec • Hugo de Garis • Julian Huxley • Eric Drexler • Keith Henson • Martine Rothblatt • Max More • Natasha Vita-More • Nick Bostrom • Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov • Raymond Kurzweil • Robert Bradbury • Robert Ettinger • Zoltan Istvan Transhumanist organizations Applied Foresight Network • Extropy Institute • Foresight Institute • Alcor Life Extension Foundation • Machine Intelligence Research Institute • Humanity+ • 2045 Initiative Related philosophies Related topics Bioethics Psychology Mind and Brain Molecular and Cellular Biology Medicine Computer science Robotics Philosophy Nanotechnology Artificial intelligence The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: What are portals? List of portals Featured portals