Examples Of Transhumanism

Society experienced to achieve perfection in many ways, almost since the beginning of humanity, and is almost impossible so many attempts fail and cause severe consequences. In “the perfect match” by Ken Liu, short story and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, short story. Perfection is people ignoring what really matter. People are not unique anymore because society is limiting with an idea of what is not accepted or normal is not perfect. Societies’ desire of perfection makes people go desperate and feel alone.

Human life is valuable, but doesn’t last forever, but recently scientists have come up with ideas to prolong life. This would be good in some ways, but overall, life is something to be cherished, and should not last forever. In the article “Should We Live Forever?” by Justin O’Neill, it states, “If babies continue to be born but no one dies, population growth - already straining Earth’s resources - will accelerate. Providing food, water, shelter, and education will be a huge challenge.”

Even though he could not achieve perfection, he still sought it, as the quest to reach perfection is human

Extended life would be nice for some people, however an healthy life will beat an extended life

As long as humans have lived and died, we have strived to know the meaning of life. We assume that there is a meaning or importance to life, and in doing so try to provide some permanence to our existence so that a greater machine might continue to function. It is only natural, then, for us to be interested in the concept of immortality. If there is purpose to an ending life, a life that does not end must be supremely important. This idea is exemplified throughout time in stories both historical and fictional. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one such story. Gilgamesh deals with immortality on nearly every level, and at the same time points back to mortality, trying to extract a reason for living and dying.

It is said that perfection is unfathomable, and far out of reach of the human hand. But, others say, if you can dream it; you can achieve it. Society sends contradicting messages of the necesity to be perfect and have perfection, yet that it is merely impossible. As a young child, it is pure instinct to imagine life ahead and make it out to be great, more frivolous than reality grants.

Living for ever is an idea that must stay in the movies. I don't think we should spread that idea because it gives people false hope. The Calico project aims to cure cancer, prevent disease, and eventually make people immortal. After reading Ben Popper’s article on the Calico project in the Verge magazine, I remained with the opinion that finding new treatments to diseases is a must for our future generations. However, making people live forever is overly ambitious.

The desire for everlasting life or immortality has been the first and the oldest quest of mankind. At the beginning of time, man was designed to live forever. When God created Adam, he created him to dwell on the earth and to fill it with his offspring’s. At no time was he told that this was a temporary arrangement. He was to live forever unless he ate from one certain tree. If he ate from that tree, then he would die. We are then left with several questions, if he had not eaten from that tree, would he still be alive? If he was meant to live forever, was that desire instilled in him? And as his descendants, was the desire to live forever instilled in each of us as well?

To examine this possibility, Garreau interviewed Nick Bostrom, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association. Bostrom shows his agreement with human transcendence by asserting that “Technological progress makes it harder for people to ignore the fact that we might actually change the human nature” (qtd. in Garreau, 242).

"...the human desire for perfect control is insatiable." (Source B) Cohen argues that genetic engineering is an example of people striving for perfection. He says that because humans always desire complete perfection, the need will never be completely satisfied. This is contradictory to our morals as humans to accept everybody for who they are.

We can break through to the other side and should. Anti Transcendentalists argue perfection is only in immortals. Hawthorne shows how Earth is imperfect in ‘ The Birthmark’, "Ah, upon another face perhaps it might," replied her husband; "but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect,

However; this definition of perfection is purely subjective and could make some be defined as imperfect. If a person reaches perfection, defined and created by another, they are not perfect, but flawed. All these engineered people are obsessed with perfection, so they devalue themselves with soma. The thought that some are better than other proves a difficulty as everyone works to be the best. Even so, the ones placed in lower castes stay the way they are, because the have no motivation.

Even though the prospect of extending life indefinitely via the philosopher’s stone has been around since the ancient Greeks and has also been mentioned in the Bible, modern-day biochemists and biomedical engineers are much closer to achieving the ideal of immortality. Life extension has also had its role in popular culture in movies such as Logan’s Run. The movie depicts American society in 2274 when a totalitarian government is in power. Due to the limited resources, the dystopian government dictates that all citizens must die when they reach age thirty, and all the citizens of this government live with a watch that ticks down the time they have left to live (talk about a literal biological clock). This is a darkly humored film that can be viewed as an interpretation of Malthusian theory (described in 1798), which states that while resources like arable land, food, and natural oils grow linearly, the human population grows exponentially. Although life extension is an intriguing idea for some people, the potential problems it would likely cause, in addition to the existing problems that it would exacerbate, would greatly outweigh the benefits. Specifically, there are drawbacks behind extending the average human’s lifespan by a considerable amount, like extending the individual’s life past his or her health span and functionality. People could be sustained through biotechnology past their prime just to live in pain due to the tissues not integrating themselves correctly into

Society has tried to achieve perfection in many ways, almost since the beginning of humanity, and it is almost impossible so many attempts fail and cause severe consequences. In “the perfect match” by Ken Liu, short story and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, short story. Perfection is people ignoring what really matter. People have lost their identity, they are not unique anymore because society is limiting with an idea that what is not accepted or normal is not perfect.

In our day and age as we know it, there have been astounding advancements in medicine. The average life expectancy has risen. People are being educated in issues that surround a healthy life style. As a society, we are trying to increase our life span and defeat death. While people are following strict