Improving humanity through technology? How transhumanism is rerouting the course of human evolution

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Improving humanity through technology? This is one of the ideas behind transhumanism, a cultural and ideological movement that advocates perfecting the physical and intellectual capacities of human beings through technology and science, and questions the limits of humanity itself, such as life extension.

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Firstly, this theory bases human evolution on technology. Therefore, man can only improve, increase and enhance his physical and cognitive qualities if he adopts technological and scientific advances in his organism, such as nanotechnology, genetic engineering, cybernetics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

On the other hand, there is no limit to this theory. Consequently, experts who base their knowledge on this philosophy claim that humans can change, dominate and override natural events such as old age, guilt, suffering and even death.

Furthermore, they believe that man can transform his morphology, choosing between various options for the propagation of the species. Some of the transhumanists go so far as to talk about the possibility of leaving aside the human body by transferring all the “information” contained in each individual into a computer.

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