Posted: Sun, January 06, 2013 | By: José Cordeiro Transhumanism
is a new philosophy that has been proposed to continue the ideas
of humanism in a new world where science and technology are the
major drivers of change. Julian Huxley, the English evolutionary
biologist and humanist that became the first director-general of
UNESCO and founder of the World Wildlife Fund, wrote that: The
human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself —not just
sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there
in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name
for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man
remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new
possibilities of and for his human nature. “I believe in
transhumanism”: once there are enough people who can truly say
that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind
of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of
Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real
destiny. Huxley originall