{"id":140136,"date":"2022-06-04T04:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T09:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beyond-our-ape-brained-meat-sacks-can-transhumanism-save-our-species"},"modified":"2022-06-04T04:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T09:02:29","slug":"beyond-our-ape-brained-meat-sacks-can-transhumanism-save-our-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beyond-our-ape-brained-meat-sacks-can-transhumanism-save-our-species","title":{"rendered":"Beyond our \u2018ape-brained meat sacks\u2019: can transhumanism save our species?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-our-ape-brained-meat-sacks-can-transhumanism-save-our-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transhumanism is a movement that aims to address \u2013 or end \u2013 what Bohan calls the \u201ctragedies of reality\u201d: ageing, sickness and involuntary death. It is, she writes, \u201ca philosophy and a project that aims to make us more than human\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we recognise or understand it, that project has already begun, she says, and it will transform our world \u2013 and minds and bodies \u2013 within our lifetimes. Not only is it happening, she says, but this transition is necessary if humanity is to survive in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>For Bohan<strong>,<\/strong> it is no great to leap to imagine that a baby born in 2030 may have its entire genome mapped at birth, that data uploaded to a central health record and cross-referenced at any medical appointment throughout its life. It is no great stretch to think that AI will become the most powerful intellectual force of the century. That human consciousness might be transferred from our \u201cmeat sacks\u201d (bodies) into a technological sphere. That the rise of AI and automation might render great swathes of human labour redundant, and that maybe \u2013 if we get it right \u2013 that could leave more time for leisure, big thinking, meditation, connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transhumanism is a movement that aims to address \u2013 or end \u2013 what Bohan calls the \u201ctragedies of reality\u201d: ageing, sickness and involuntary death. It is, she writes, \u201ca philosophy and a project that aims to make us more than human\u201d. Whether we recognise or understand it, that project has already begun, she says, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}