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Transhumanism Between Human Enhancement and Technological Innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Transhumanism introduces from its very beginning a paradigm shift about concepts like human nature, progress and human future. An overview of its ideology reveals a strong belief in the idea of human enhancement through technologically means.
Iuga, Ion
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Health beyond the carbon barrier

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
Silicon Valley donors have been investing heavily in a range of transhumanist longevity and immortality ventures. Theirs is a particular, culturally embedded endeavor, shaped by specific histories, ideologies, and futures that present new posthuman views
Abou Farman
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Transhumanism (dot) Mil: A Bibliometric Analysis of Technoprogressive Terms in Military Publications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Has transhumanism influenced military thinking? Previous work found that transhumanist terms did not appear widely in military publications. The present work analyzes and improves on previous content analysis of transhumanist terms in military literature
Evans, Woody
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Human enhancement and functional diversity: Ethical concerns of emerging technologies and transhumanism

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2022
The concepts of posthuman, transhuman, transhumanism and human enhancement, and their use of emerging technologies, are described together with their scientific and social implications.
Miquel-Àngel Serra
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AN EAST ASIAN MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE TRANSHUMAN

open access: yesZygon, 2016
This study explores the transhuman from an East Asian perspective. In terms of cognitive science, mathematics, and theology, we define the transhuman system as characterized by (1) transcendence, (2) extension by compactification, and (3) samtaegeuk ...
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Narratifs des grandes transitions

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020
The multiplicity and diversity of entities and processes involved in major transitions require narrative choices to make these transitions intelligible, requiring concepts that combine human and non-human agentivities.
Denis Couvet
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The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2022
This paper outlines the proposal for an egalitarian, transhumanist, and communal version of ars moriendi that should be coherent and meet the consequentialist criteria of the principle of minimizing anti-values and maximizing values, especially the ...
Łukasz Paweł Polowczyk
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Les Méta-Barons, des cyborgs subversifs ?

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2019
In recent years, there has been an increasing overlap between science fiction and scientific narratives, particularly with the rise of transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to improve human physical and mental capacities.
Adrien Cascarino
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The Psycho-Bio-Physical Nature of Man, Possibility and Technology of Their Extended Mind

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2022
The facts and inferences exposed in this writing, and the arguments that support it, allow us to conclude that the «extension of the mind», opened during the evolutionary process, since always and today accelerated by the work of human intervention, in ...
Javier Monserrat
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Body Consciousness in Modern Urban Surroundings: Freerunning and Parkour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper covers the matter of body consciousness in modern urban surroundings. Somatic disciplines known as Freerunning and Parkour are presented as activities of a performative nature that can be understood and practised as means of redefining an ...
Petri, Jakub
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