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Transhumanism has already won

Ilia Stambler (Bar-Ilan): Life Extension a Conservative Enterprise? Some Fin-de-siecle and Early Twentieth-century Precursors of Transhumanism. The technological progress that revolutionized computing, electronics, and robotics in the 20th century will transform our bodies and enhance our brains in the 21st. Ownership and the Body: Is the human body a piece of property? Engineering an end to aging: Age-defying creams and lotions, esoteric herbs and elixirs, Botox and plastic surgery — what do they all have in common? The George Burns scenario is within our grasp if we collectively recognize what has happened in aging science and seize the day. Is genius immortal? Tech god Ray Kurzweil is a modern-day Edison — now he's battling to stay alive forever. Immortality isn't unethical: Many people decry the prospect of people living for ever, but a transhumanist world needn't be a dystopia. Immortalism: Jason Silva on Ernest Becker and Alan Harrington on overcoming biological limitations. Frozen or thawed: It might be a small "sleep" for mankind but a big leap for science — the question is how you like to be treated after you die? From the Vatican's Zenit, here's an introduction to transhumanism. Mike Treder and Massimo Pigliucci debate transhumanism. Michael Anissimov on valid transhumanist criticism and on how transhumanism has already won. From io9, your posthumanism is boring me: We will never be posthuman, because we have always been posthuman; and the problem with the idea of posthumanity is that the thing it is supposed to be beyond, "humanness," is an imagined community to begin with — so why imagine posthumanity at all? There is good reason for thinking that posthumans will, on the whole, be atheists. From h+, Kyle Munkittrick on transhumanism and superheroes.