Transhumanism

This page covers transhumanism in terms of politics. For a page on transhumanism from a philosophical perspective, see the Philosophyball Page

"I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."

FM-2030

Transhumanism, often abbreviated to H+, is an ideology that supports the usage of emerging technologies to enhance humanity and overcome its own physical limitations.

Due to the nature of transhumanism, it can applied alongside almost any other civic, economic or ideological system, with the few exceptions being ideologies that reject technological development or oppose transhumanism as a whole.

History

Transhumanist ideas first arouse out of the eugenics movement through certain eugenicists trying to grasp at the question of "Can human biology be improved beyond humans limits?" this first started with the 1920s. Soon after there were multiple ideas regarding the possibility of bionic implants and their use to improve human biology.

The effect science fiction had on the coming Transhumanist movement is not to be understated as it was a incredibly impactful literary genre and allowed the general population to grasp at Transhumanist ideas and peak into the future and it allowed sciene fiction authors to explore ideas of that proto-Transhumanists posed.

Beliefs

Transhumanists believe in the enhancing of the human to transcend the human. That base idea is why it is called Transhumanism. Transhumanism very much though can not be said to be Anti-Humanist or Post-Humanist as its central goal is the improving of the human condition and not the abolition or destruction of the human.

Improving of the human (condition) for Transhumanism can be done through many ways. Biological improvement is one of these as is also mechanical improvement.

Variants

Bio-Transhumanism

Bio-Transhumanism advocates for the goals of transhumanism to be practiced through the use of biotechnology as opposed to mechanical technology, such as gene-editing and CRISPR-based methods. Most bio-transhumanists hold the belief that biological implants are more suited for humans than mechanical implants, though some see bio-transhumanism as simply just a different method.

Religious Transhumanism

Religious Transhumanism, or f+ (faith+) is a school of thought that seeks to combine religious belief with transhumanist characters. Many different religious believers apply this differently, on the small scale of chasing traditionally religious ideas such as immortality to cults directly implementing transhuman characteristics into their belief, such as Raëlism.

Religious thinkers criticized the philosophy of transhumanism as offering no eternal truths or relationship with the divine, to which transhumanists say that is a fatal failure to understand the content of Transhumanist philosophy.

Christian Transhumanism

Christian Transhumanism (✞+ or C+) believes that intentional use of technology can empower our growth of identity as made in the image of God. It believes in progress along every dimension such as social, technological and spiritual, and that God's mission involves the transformation and renewal of humanity to defeat problems such as hunger, oppression and even death.

Many people believe that this is contradictory. They cite that any attempt to merge Transhumanism with Christianity is misguided, as transhumanism is materialistic and rejects the idea of sin, but they don't undestand that the capacity to reduce our temptations in life is one of the ways to get us closer to God's plan to us.

Democratic Transhumanism

See: Democratic Transhumanism

Flag of Democratic Transhumanism

Democratic Transhumanism, shortened to Demh+, is a democratic, often culturally progressive, pro-technology ideology.

Democratic Transhumanism believes that the concept of Transhumanism would fit within a liberal, social and/or radical democratic society, supporting equal access to human enhancement technologies in order to promote social equality and to prevent further divide between the socioeconomic classes.

James Hughes has referred to " techno-progressivism" as another name for Democratic Transhumanism, but it can also refer to the support of both technological and social reform in general.

Personality and Behaviour

Transhumanism is characterized as a stereotypical robot depicted in various medias with various examples of the behaviours:

• Being noisy and glitchy at any time
• Going hostile and harming other ideologies when Infected by a Malicious Computer virus
• While it's a rare trope used by popular medias, Being voiced by a Synthetic Text to Speech voice program

How to Digitally Represent

Flag of Transhumanism

1. DrawObject "Ball"
2. if DrawObject "Ball" = true:
3. DrawObject "H+ with Circle' on Object'ball" with.asset 'color light blue' hexadecimal:'#01A9F2' end
4. if DrawObject "H+ with Circle' on Object'ball" with.asset 'color light blue' hexadecimal:'#01A9F2' = true:
5. DrawObject 'One Eye Visor' on Object'ball' /*/ Visor outside 'color grey' hexadecimal: #585A5A Visor inside 'color red' hexadecimal: #FF0000) /*/
6. NonRequired.Operation: add 'visor glare' end
7. if all.lines.completed = true:
8. print("Task Completed") end

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Light Blue	#01A9F2	rgb(1, 169, 242)
	Grey	#585A5A	rgb(88, 90, 90)
	Red	#FF0000	rgb(255, 0, 0)

Saved Relationships

Transhumanism.Relationship == Positive

• Technocracy - print("Shares opinion on technology. Also built my first augments.")
• Offspring - print("Shares opinion on technology.")
  • Anarcho-Transhumanism - print("Wants technological development to be free from the state (especially anti-technological ones).")
  • Capitalist Transhumanism- print("Wants technological advancement to be a profitable enterprise. Love the cyberpunk aesthetics.")
  • Democratic Transhumanism - print(“Wants to ensure that everyone, not just the rich, has equal access to technology.”)
  • CyberFeminism - print("Wants to use technology to bring about gender equality.")
  • Postgenderism - print("Wants to go further than the above and abolish gender altogether. I like your style.")
  • Libertarian Transhumanism - print("Wants to protect liberty through the use of technology.")
  • Socialist Transhumanism - print("Wants to use technology to liberate the workers.")
    • Fully Automated Gay Space Communism - print("An LGBTQ+ version of the above.")
    • Cybercommunism - print("We will continue with what Salvador Allende has started. Revive Project Cybersyn!")
  • Technogaianism - print("Who said that you can't protect the environment and support technological advancement at the same time?")
  • Nazi Transhumanism - print("Wants to use technology to advance the nation-state. But you are too genocidal for my tastes. Also, I am not him.")

• Reactionary Modernism - print("Shares opinion on technology and very religious, supports building a different modernity.")
• Furries - print("Your dream may become a reality someday.")
• Futurism - print("Shares opinion on technology.")
• Post-Industrialism - print("More moderate opinion on technology and influenced by him.")
• Piratism, Technoliberalism, and E-Democracy - print("Same reason as above.")
• Humanism - print("Shares opinion on humanity.")
• Progressivism - print("Same reason as above.")
• Scientocracy - print("Shares opinion on science, technology and humanity.")
• Noocracy - print("Shares opinion on science and encourages me to make people wiser.")
• Accelerationism - print("Shares opinion on technology and wants to speed up progress.")
• Theodemocracy - print("I'm indifferent to religion but he support and allegedly I will make them gods")

Transhumanism.Relationship == Neutral

• Archeofuturism - print("Shares opinion on technology but opposite opinion on civilization.")
• Industrialism - print("Shares opinion on technology but too moderate outside of the economy.")
• Post-Humanism - print("More extreme opinion on technology and opposite opinion on humanity.")
• Soulism - print("His scientific variant is so advanced that talking with him causes massive glitches and errors inside my brain.")
• Eugenicism - print("Shares opinion on improving human bodies but whose methods of doing so aren't exactly ethical or scientific.")

Transhumanism.Relationship == Negative

• Anarcho-Primitivism - print("Opposite opinion on technology.")
• National Primitivism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and wants to arrest me.")
• Agrarianism - print("Opposite opinion on technology.")
• Primalism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and humanity. NOTE: appears to be an animal of some kind.")
• Neoluddism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and sent me an explosive device.")
• Pol Potism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and killed intellectuals.")
• Fourth Theory - print("Opposite opinion on human enhancement and accuses me for being evil rather than improving human life. Wait, why do you support him?")
• Lys Noir - print("Same reason as above.")
• Reactionaryism - print("Opposite opinion on modern technology and society.")
• Death Worship - print("Opposite opinion on life.")
• Necrocracy - print("Same as above.")

Further Information

Literature

• Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto

Wikipedia

• Transhumanism
• Transhumanist politics
• Outline of Transhumanism

Notable People

• Jeffrey Epstein
• FM-2030

Videos

• Transhumanism: Could we live forever? by BBC News
• Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR by Kurzgesagt
• Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? by Kurzgesagt

Online Communities

• H+Pedia
• r/Transhumanism
• r/TranshumanistMemes

Music

• Cybercity

Variants

Christian Transhumanism

• Transhumanist Association

Gallery

Portraits

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Alternative designs

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  Christian Transhumanism flag design
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  Religious Transhumanism flag

Comics and Artwork

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