{"id":71402,"date":"2021-02-10T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71402"},"modified":"2021-01-31T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:23:14","slug":"the-case-for-transhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71402","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Transhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Transhumanist Steve Fuller pitches his case for transhumanism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hgGtLJ8DEaY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Watch the full course at <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fiai.tv%2Fiai-academy%2Fcourses%2Finfo%3Fcourse%3Dthe-case-for-transhumanism%23utm_source%3DYouTube%26utm_medium%3Ddescription&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=hgGtLJ8DEaY&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWhLSm85Tkx0UWNPSDAzd2Z3UWt5V0NvMTlSd3xBQ3Jtc0tsZWUzRXF5TDIwYzdXdWJEbTRuNUM3MUxDWkNjNDRuNG05WGl1T1hMd3J2UV8yOTV4dUZBU3Z4bjVIeTFocDByZmNtVzFNM2ZzbER0Y1haQ0gxLWExT2RrUTJsY2EwM0M3V3lsLWxTQTRrTGpaNkVtRQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/iai.tv\/iai-academy\/courses\/in&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Humanity is at a turning point, and the question of how we should continue requires us to ask how humans should understand themselves. There\u2019s the posthumanist school of thought, which argues that humans are nothing but upright apes, slowly destroying their own environment through inevitable overpopulation. Then there is the transhumanist school of thought: that humans are exceptional, valuable, and should be privileged. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">When did we start thinking of humans as \u2018homo sapiens\u2019, and how was this shift a precursor to posthumanism? How was the ancient Greek view of humanity affected by the fact they did not know about man&#8217;s relation to apes? Where is the majority of transhumanist research happening, and why is it so important that we\u2019re in the know about what\u2019s going on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Steve Fuller is a postmodern philosopher. He is Professor of Sociology at Warwick, and author of &#8216;Popper vs. Kuhn&#8217; and the controversial &#8216;Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design&#8217;s Challenge to Darwinism&#8217;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">In this course on the IAI Academy, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick and author of Humanity 2.0 Steve Fuller lays out his vision for the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For debates and talks: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fiai.tv&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=hgGtLJ8DEaY&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2hJX0dPMy1pRlV4T0ZlWjliY1JKWFBjekpyQXxBQ3Jtc0tuWEhEdmxuV2pqZmpuUW11bjZYU3phUXVHdUxVWTBJcVZQaXdFY2dqSVo0R2RUdGNTa0hWVWxrcWtNQ1RmeTV5X3d6TXp2ekNEWHNiZXVQWG13cFNWbEp0TmJNUUpnUV9aTThVRnRQS3lXM1RqMGhXUQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/iai.tv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For articles: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fiai.tv%2Farticles&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=hgGtLJ8DEaY&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqazBfckk4OFdNMkxSUU9VRTlyZDl3UzVxakFNQXxBQ3Jtc0tscFJqR2N2bkVmU21WcUdLYXYxN2FoLW1HM05NaUxFX2JVZzRvX2R4N3lCcDUwMDlsbFltRzRzQVN4M2FOZEI3dldGM1djRnBrVG5RNXl2cnZMVFlKb0RXWmp1MGFaWmRLSERfSVZtXy1GaDh2VzRSTQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/iai.tv\/articles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">For courses: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fiai.tv%2Fiai-academy%2Fcourses&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=hgGtLJ8DEaY&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjg5MWplME1aY1pTMkt3NlZ2U1V0aXhwa05sQXxBQ3Jtc0tsOFNrZUlZSHZDRFo5dmNOM24tU3VEMnVhcW5xNDVRWlVxZmpNdmNiM1RNei1UQ0h3VURiTGQ2cjR0VVZvNHR1ZHBDRHdDNWtPcmpVZHVRZXdqc1ljeXlFWnRPMHMzOXhxQjBqTG9yQ05TWjlLUEhtSQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/iai.tv\/iai-academy\/courses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transhumanist Steve Fuller pitches his case for transhumanism. Watch the full course at https:\/\/iai.tv\/iai-academy\/courses\/in&#8230; Humanity is at a turning point, and the question of how we should continue requires us to ask how humans should understand themselves. There\u2019s the posthumanist school of thought, which argues that humans are nothing but upright apes, slowly destroying their own environment through inevitable overpopulation. Then there is the transhumanist school of thought: that humans are exceptional, valuable, and should be privileged. When did we start thinking of humans as \u2018homo sapiens\u2019, and how was this shift a precursor to posthumanism? How was the ancient Greek view of humanity affected by the fact they did not know about man&#8217;s relation to apes? Where is the majority of transhumanist research happening, and why is it so important that we\u2019re in the know about what\u2019s going on? Steve Fuller is a postmodern philosopher. He is Professor of Sociology at Warwick, and author of &#8216;Popper vs. Kuhn&#8217; and the controversial &#8216;Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design&#8217;s Challenge to Darwinism&#8217;. In this course on the IAI Academy, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick and author of Humanity 2.0 Steve Fuller lays out his vision for the future. For debates and talks: https:\/\/iai.tv For articles: https:\/\/iai.tv\/articles For courses: https:\/\/iai.tv\/iai-academy\/courses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[769,1720,1719,24],"class_list":["post-71402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future","tag-future","tag-iai","tag-steve-fuller","tag-transhumanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71404,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71402\/revisions\/71404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}