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		Transhumanism is a new approach to bioethics which argues that technology can be used to overcome the limitations of the human body, and that individuals should be allowed to enhance their bodies.
		As Bostrom (1998) outlines, transhumanism is a philosophy that is directed towards specific kinds of technology, frequently upon technologies that are currently emerging from theoretical possibilities such as cryonics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence.
		For this reason, being unconvinced by transhuman aspirations entails the rejection of fantastical technologies as being unrealiseable or undesirable for the interests of humans, rather than the complete rejection of technology.
	www.lycos.com /info/transhumanism.html (511 words)

	Transhumanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human physical and cognitive abilities and ameliorate what it regards as harsh aspects of the human condition, such as disease and aging.
		Transhumanism cultivates the academic study of the possibilities and consequences of developing and using human enhancement techniques and other emerging technologies for these purposes.
		Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/transhumanism (5428 words)

	Transhumanism - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Transhumanism is an emergent school of speculative philosophy analysing or favouring the use of certain technologies to improve the human condition beyond the constraints of biological evolution.
		Transhumanism maintains that this is good and that humans can and should become more than human through the application of such technological innovations as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, neuropharmaceuticals, prosthetic enhancements and mind-machine interfaces.
		While largely a grassroots and broadly based movement, transhumanism does tend toward rational arguments and empirical observations of natural phenomena; in many respects, transhumanists partake in a culture of science and reason, and are guided by life-promoting principles and values.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /t/tr/transhumanism.html (3250 words)

	Christian transhumanism: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Christianity is an abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of jesus of nazareth as described in the...
		Transhumanism is an emergent philosophy analysing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology,...
		Christian zionism is the belief among some christians that the return of the jews to the holy land, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christian_transhumanism.htm (1187 words)

	Transhumanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		'''Transhumanism''' is an emergent philosophy analysing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
		Transhumanism maintains that this is desirable and that humans can and should become more than human through the application of technological innovations such as genetic engineering, molecular nanotechnology, neuropharmaceuticals, prosthetic enhancements, and mind-machine interfaces (see Human Cognome Project).
		Further opposition to transhumanism comes from Critics who point to subjectivity in the use of concepts such as "enhance" and "limitations", seeing eugenicist or master race ideologies of the past as warnings of what transhumanism might unintentionally encourage, as evidenced by the emergence of fringe offshoots such as prometheism and transtopianism.
	transhumanism.iqnaut.net (2301 words)

	Transhumanism: The Next Step?
		While the goal of practical immortality is prominent in discussions of transhumanism, the stated purpose of transhumanism is to enable a wider variety of choice and freedom for humanity, whether that choice be a vigorous, disease-free natural life span or the vastly extended lifetime enabled by some future technology.
		Although transhumanism's statements regarding religion track perfectly with standard freethought fare, in practice, transhumanists often find campaigning against religion to be a distraction from their main message of technological solutions for the most essential human problems.
		An interesting aspect of transhumanism is the large overlap between transhumanists and various technophiles, such as science fiction buffs, science writers, engineers, and scientists.
	www.secularhumanism.org /library/aah/inniss_8_4.htm (1128 words)

	CYDAILY.COM: Transhumanism
		Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an intellectual and cultural movement analyzing and supporting morphological freedom and the use of new sciences and technologies to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
		While largely a grassroots and broadly based movement, transhumanism does tend toward rational arguments and empirical observations of natural phenomena; in many respects, transhumanists partake in a culture of science and reason, and are guided by humanitarian principles and values.
		Criticisms of transhumanism can be divided into two main categories: those objecting to likelihood of transhumanist goals being achieved (practical criticisms); and those objecting to the moral principles of transhumanism (ethical criticisms).
	www.cydaily.com /trans.html (3033 words)

	Transhumanism: A Futurist Philosophy
		Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life rather than in some supernatural "afterlife".
		Transhumanism differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting from various sciences and technologies such as neuroscience and neuropharmacology, life extension, nanotechnology, artificial ultraintelligence, and space habitation, combined with a rational philosophy and value system.
		This is true not only of traditional religions such as Christianity and Islam, and their offshoots such as Mormonism, but also of the diverse variants on New Age mysticism.
	www.maxmore.com /transhum.htm (4429 words)

	God
		Some Jewish, Christian and Muslim Medieval philosophers, including Moses Maimonides and Pseudo-Dionysius, as well as many sages of other religions, developed what is termed as Apophatic Theology or the Via Negativa, the idea that one cannot posit attributes to God and can only be discussed by what God is not.
		In this philosophy God retains the traditional Christian role of an All loving, all forgiving Father, as portrayed in the Christian allegory of the Prodigal Son, yet God is also attributed with the qualities of complete oneness with all of mankind.
		This Life is not biological life defined by objective and exterior properties, nor an abstract and empty philosophical concept, but the absolute phenomenological life, a radically immanent life which possesses in it the power of showing itself in itself without distance, a life which reveals permanently itself.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/go/god.html (6762 words)

	Secondhand Smoke: Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion
		Transhumanism is, in my view, a branch of scientism, that is, a quasi religion that seeks to use science in ways for which the great method is not meant.
		Transhumanism therefore cannot possibly be based on "irrational beliefs" because the original philosophy was written by a philosopher whose study was based on critical inquiry for possible outcomes.
		In sum, transhumanism is a driving force of realizing a future in which society might be able to understand how to resolve ecological problems of the earth, sociological problems of society, and physiological problems of the human body.
	www.wesleyjsmith.com /blog/2007/01/give-me-that-new-transhumanist.html (3279 words)

	What is Christian nationalism? \| TPMCafe
		Indeed, the teaching of Christian nationalist history may turn out to be the next big educational battle after intelligent design -- a curriculum developed by several leaders in the movement has already been introduced in school districts nationwide.
		In that situation, without the benefit of actual Transhumans, it is likely that less than optimal deployment of nanotech might be done, either because the nanotech is not fully developed, or the people deploying it are not of Transhuman caliber in their ability to target their enemies.
		As for transhumanism, you would have to ask one of their believers, I haven't either the knowledge nor the right to explain their dogma, or to qualify them as a science or not.
	www.tpmcafe.com /node/30059 (12821 words)

	JET 14(2) - August 2005 - Garner - Transhumanism and Christian Social Concern
		Within Christianity each of the types of relationship is manifested, from pessimists that see technology as somehow introducing more problems than it solves and dehumanizing persons, through to others that clearly identify all technological progress as divinely mandated.
		In a positive sense, Christian concern or ‘traditional values’ found in love of neighbor, compassion for the poor, justice for the oppressed, and an vision of human equality found in the imago Dei, demands that technology that can alleviate suffering and improve quality of life must be taken seriously.
		Secular transhumanism has its own good news of salvation through human hands and minds alone, while Christianity is shaped by the perspective that salvation is sourced in God alone and humanity is capable of both great creativity and destructiveness if left to its own devices.
	www.jetpress.org /volume14/garner.html (7210 words)

	Transhumanism by Bernard M. Daly, America: The Catholic Weekly Magazine
		Christian resistance to some new techniques was characterized at one point as “a Luddite dragging in of Trojan horses.”
		This was a sequel to a similar workshop in July on “a post-human-future,” organized by the Ian Ramsey Centre, part of the theology faculty at the University of Oxford.
		Hughes and others do not think of their transhumanism as a religion, but they maintain their faith in their worldview with religious zeal.
	www.americamagazine.org /gettext.cfm?articleTypeID=1&textID=3826&issueID=501 (1583 words)

	Transhumanist FAQ
		The difference in Huxley’s transhumanism and More’s transhumanism is that Huxley states "man remaining man but transcending himself." Transhumanism as defined by More explains the overcoming of human limits and the transformation from being human to becoming posthuman.
		Transhumanism is a set of ideas which represents a world view to improve the human condition.
		Transhumanity was not a novel concept, the precursory ideas from Julius Huxley and Teilhard de Chardin, and others were known, albeit ideas coalesce at different points in time and place.
	www.extropy.org /faq.htm (11438 words)

	The Memetics of Transhumanism
		This is partially due to the fact that transhumanism is unfamilliar to most people, and they want to relate the meme to another meme they have encountered (and thus search the "far out" parts of the meme-space first), and partially because many transhumanist ideas had counterparts (real or apparent) among the fascists.
		In the same way we might want to spread non-technical transhumanism, where the fulfillment of the potential of humans is emphasized, while the technical aspects are regarded as less important (and left to the technical transhumanists).
		For example, the individualism western transhumanism demonstrate might not be suitable for the far east, where the ideals of self-organization might take its place.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Memetics/trans_meme.html (1402 words)

	News from Agape Press
		David Stevens of the CMDA says Mehlman is a known leader in the field of transhumanism, an area of study that the Christian doctor says has "creating a post-human future" as its goal.
		One frightening scenario, he suggests, is the potential "arms race" that could develop between nations vying to be the first to create a race of super-smart, super-strong, enhanced human beings for use as soldiers.
		Christian bioethicists have confronted the National Institutes of Health on this issue, Stevens notes.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/5/162006c.asp (412 words)

	Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion » Blog Archive » Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law ...
		In fact, Christians ought to be on the forefront in the fight against ageing and death.
		Christian's led the hospital movement in the nineteenth century to ease pain and suffering and to extend life.
		However, you do have to admit that Christianity (and Islam) has a certain "stridency" to it (even though you may not share it), that Bhuddism, Hinduism, and Zen, for example, do not,It is this "stridency" that I believe is the basis of much of the hostility that you may encounter from people such as myself.
	www.foresight.org /nanodot/?p=214 (2542 words)

	Accelerating Future » Transhumanism can… what!? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		On the other hand, transhumanism’s critics might also want to step back and think about how they’re projecting their own fears of the future on a collection of ideas they often don’t know much about.
		Transhumanism, at its best, is precisely about how to navigate the near- and middle-term future so as to be able to debate and decide how we, individually and collectively, want to instantiate and utilize the various potentials inherent in the technology(s) mentioned above.
		As such, anyone concerned about such issues, should embrace transhumanism, to the extent that the latter is explicitly devoted to figuring-out how to optimize and harvest all the wheat, while avoiding all the (some of it potentially catastrophic) chaff.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /michael/blog/?p=138 (1781 words)

	Gene Expression: The Golden Rule & Christian altruism
		Western Christian culture has been more successful than most in doing this, but I think I have given my reasons as to why I do not think Christianity is necessary for this (it is empirically clearly it is not sufficient).
		I think that a lot of the ethical principles of Buddhism and Christianity are especially focussed on a.) discouraging the endless cycles of feud between clans and b.) discouraging warfare of the pointless glory-hunting type.
		Turning the other cheek, on the other hand, is unique to Christianity, a heroic, romantic, desperate religion to overturn a world of slavery and servitude ("the powers of darkness") through human self-sacrifice (along with a great deal of unwilling sacrifice of others I might add).
	scienceblogs.com /gnxp/2006/08/the_golden_rule_christian_altr.php (1583 words)

	Think Christian » Blog Archive » Waiting for the Techno-Rapture
		The identification of the technological singularity with Christian eschatology requires a postmillennialist viewpoint, in which posthumanity is viewed as a good thing, the fulfillment of God’s promises….
		Christianity is based on the historic fact of Christ’s life, death and resurrection; reducing Christianity to a great technological metaphor seems to me to remove the focus from Christ.
		Transhumanism’s focus is on humanity’s potential greatness; there’s not a lot of room for the saving grace of Christ.
	www.thinkchristian.net /?p=101 (503 words)

	Townhall.com::Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Hedges is a former foreign correspondent for the NY Times and author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
		God loves capitalism. For the record, I mean the the Christian God. Why do I believe this? Because throughout the globe, the more capitalist the society is, the better that the country performs.
		Christian Futurist Tom Horn does a superb job of connecting each of these ambitious topics.
	www.townhall.com /search.aspx?SearchWord=Christian&SearchSection= (601 words)

	God - Christianity Knowledge Base - a Wikia wiki
		For instance, many Christian fundamentalists consider the God of Islam (Allah) to be a false god or demon.
		Many Jews consider the messiah of Christianity (Jesus) to be a false god and some monotheists (notably fundamentalist Christians) hold that there is one triune God, and that all gods of other religions are actually demons in disguise (as in 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 14).
		Eastern religious believers and Liberal Christians are more likely to assume those of other faiths worship the same God as they, just under a different name and / or form.
	christianity.wikia.com /wiki/God (6984 words)

	Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg
		Transhumanism, Hughes convincingly argues, is the sequel to humanism, and to feminism, to the movements for racial and gender equality, for the fight for queer and transgender rights -- if you support the right to determine what consenting adults can do with their bodies in the bedroom, why not in the operating theatre?
		Much of this book is taken up with scathing rebuttal to the enemies of transhumanism -- Christian lifestyle conservatives who've fought against abortion, stem-cell research and gay marriage; as well as deep ecologist/secular lefty intelligentsia who fear the commodification of human life.
		The humanist transhuman is a political stance I'd never imagined, but having read "Citizen Cyborg," it seems obvious and natural.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/04/11/humanist_transhumani.html (793 words)

	Prof Cook: More than Human & Transhumanism : IntentBlog
		An emerging philosophy, transhumanism, suggests that we have now reached the stage of evolution where we can decide and control not just our own destinies but what kind of human beings we should be.
		The Socratic dialogue on Transhumanism initiated on ATCA with contributions from Nigel Cameron and George Dvorsky is a marvellous illustration of the essential truth of a proposition presented in Neal Stephenson's classic portrait of a nanotechnology future, The Diamond Age:
		George Dvorsky's mind-bending list of terms and concepts from the world of "transhumanism" will no doubt stimulate the thinking of many distinguished ATCA members, and if his intent is to foster reflection and debate on the application of emerging technologies to human beings and human society I heartily endorse his posting.
	www.intentblog.com /archives/2007/01/prof_cook_more.html (7188 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		Transhumanism argues for the freedom of people to use technology to go beyond their naturally given capacities.
		In the late 20th century, transhumanism was chiefly celebrated and promoted by a group of libertarian techno-optimists.
		His preferred scenario is somehow to combine social democracy with the transhumanist goal of enabling people to use technology to transform their bodies, brains and progeny in ways they deem beneficial.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/05_Genetic/050517.trans-human.html (938 words)

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