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"The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of undamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."

Do you believe transhumanism is good or bad? Why?

Transhumans will be able to live with "non-enhanced" humans? Or it will divide humanity? Or humanity will become one?

Everony deserves the benefits from transhumanism?

Are we ready for this?

Would you be part of it?

I think it's an inevitability, though it'll probably divide people by class, since only the rich will able to afford such modifications (at first at least).

Transhumanism is interesting but delves into the pseudoscience of psionics, specifically with their Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness. Interesting stuff though I wouldn't mind learning a bit about it.

Here's a link to the Eight-Circuit Model on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness

And here's the Transhumanism symbol:

I forgot to put this on the post:
A game that talks a LOT about transhumanism : "Deus Ex: Human Revolution"

When I was little I thought I would be able to volunteer for the world's first gill transplant when I got older. I'm still down when science gets there. That would be so cool.

The reality of it all gets a little too Uglies for me tho.

It's totally possible for cyborgs and other scifi stuff, but if you're hoping it happens in the next five to ten years you're way too optimistic here. It's going to take another say ten years until we have early prototypes for actual scifi cyborgs and it's going to take years until it's cheap enough to mass produce cheap.

I'm actually running a ttrpg that's transhumanism themed called Eclipse Phase. The predictions on how it affects society is fairly interesting. Ya got conservative militant faction which thinks transhumanism is impure/dangerous mostly due to how humanity got screwed by some super-AI (it's complicated), old economy hypercorporations which are oppressive shadowrun-esque hypercrops, new-economy anarchists and collectives which kinda just keep to themselves and use a post-scarcity economy, and various others.

I think it will probably take a significant couple of discoveries in technology to get the ball rolling on that, probably within a century if we're lucky. I think it may divide humanity more than it will bring us together and I fear it may be the death of many cultures and/or nations. I'm on the fence about participating in something like that. The prospect of being something extraordinary is appealing, but at the same time our pains, struggles, fears, and weaknesses are part of what make us…human. To be more than that…almost feels like it would be less in a way.

I think transhumanism will eventually become a viable thing, but not anytime soon. Once the technology involved becomes worthwhile then it will probably take off but the current state of transhumanism is pretty stupid. As far as where it goes, I think the first trend will be in prosthetics. Current genetic modification science is still very much in the experimental phase, where as the best prosthetics are getting close to being as good as the real thing. I don't think it will be too long before they are better, if not somewhat preferable to real limbs.