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    Transhumanism is an ideology that believe in the possibility of human knowledge being surpassed. With robotics no longer needing emotional qualia in order to reaction a human’s level of emotional cognition, and with Moore’s Law theorizing that robotics will continuously grow at an exponential rate, Transhumanism becomes a very realistic ideology. Robotics being able to possess more intellectual and cognitive power than human beings is now a viable notion. When this happens, it will follow the same

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    understanding respectively, but more importantly science needs the oversight of Christian ethics to hold its hand. Otherwise, science run rampant, particularly engineering, could easily be used to allow humans to step beyond their station through transhumanism, yet human dignity as well as flourishing can be preserved by faith. In Andrew Halestrap’s 2015 article, “Science as a Christian Vocation,” in Christians in Science, he advocates the idea of Christians in science as a necessity, so that they can

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    technology can potentially introduce the concept of transhumanism. It may not seem such a daunting problem as we are so normalized with living alongside technological devices from motor vehicles to our most used and loved cellular devices. We don’t recognize how often and reliant we are to these accessible devices which leads to the point where we are overwhelmed with its mass use. We can acknowledge this growth through examining the proponents of transhumanism, the critique presented by Allenby and Sarewitz

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    Transhumanism is a movement that seeks out to make human evolution go beyond such as increasing physical abilities, pleasure, and extend life while decreasing the pain through technology making it a big game changer to our society. Julian Huxley (1887-1975) is known as the creator of the word “transhumanism” who wrote an essay about it in 1951. People associated in transhumanism are Francis Fukuyama, Zolton Istvan, Julian Huxley, Nick Bostrom, Max More, Natasha Vita-More and more. Transhumanist like

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    Transhumanism Transhumanism is the ideology or the concept of transforming and molding the 'human condition' through the use of technology. Such technology could be used to greatly benefit and improve physical, intellectual, and even emotional qualities in an individual person. Part of transhumanist efforts are also dedicated to predicting and thinking about both the positive and negative effects as well as the dangers and benefits that this technology may provide us with. The first 'transhumanists'

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    and also a function of awareness, feeling, or motivation. Transhumanism is a transforming of the human condition by developing and making it available by technologies to make a better human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. A very significant thing in transhumanist is thinking in life extension of the genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible. Transhumanism is used for us as in a way for us to be better

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    keep on describing humans in the context of anything but our shared history. On a similar note, one can look to Eliezer Yudkowsky, an artificial intelligence researcher and one of a growing number of transhumanists. He defines the philosophy of transhumanism as the logical extension of humanism: it does not make sense to value life up to a

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    maybe living on Mars or robots doing the household chores or your grandparents living till their 650 years old. But what I'm going to focus on today is Artificial Intelligence and how it could change our lives. I'm going to start of with transhumanism. Transhumanism is the enhancement of the human condition through technology which could help us to live longer and stop diseases forming. This includes super longevity, super intelligence and super wellbeing. So think of living forever, knowing everything

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    part upgrades often, will you remain past self? A point will come where you will cease to exist. That’s what I see emerging if transhumanism isn’t rejected. The lust on all things net associated currently, has is hard wired into society. Won\'t take time before all humans become linked to this super computer. I\'m certain many already entertain the bizarre idea of transhumanism, which is a step towards losing their humanity. Per (Rectenwald, 2015,) “recent progresses and future possibilities in genetic

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    Transhumanism is “a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively early phase”. In relation with artificial intelligence, there

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