{"id":225030,"date":"2025-11-13T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/terrence-deacon-philosophy-of-transhumanism-artificial-intelligence-ai"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:06:52","slug":"terrence-deacon-philosophy-of-transhumanism-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/terrence-deacon-philosophy-of-transhumanism-artificial-intelligence-ai","title":{"rendered":"Terrence Deacon \u2014 Philosophy of Transhumanism &amp; Artificial Intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xa2v-saBHeM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence and transhumanism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for daily videos, updates, and announcements: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/closertotruth\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/closertotruth\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity\u2019s future is now framed by artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing interventions in the human body to cure and to enhance, i.e., transhumanism. Considering the stakes and the dangers, a philosophical perspective is imperative.<\/p>\n<p>Make a tax-deductible donation of any amount to help support Closer To Truth continue making content like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Terrence William Deacon is an American neuroanthropologist. He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/terrence-deacon-philosophy-of-transhumanism-artificial-intelligence-ai\">Continue reading \u201cTerrence Deacon \u2014 Philosophy of Transhumanism &amp; Artificial Intelligence (AI)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence and transhumanism. Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for daily videos, updates, and announcements: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/closertotruth\/ Humanity\u2019s future is now framed by artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing interventions in the human body to cure and to enhance, i.e., transhumanism. Considering the stakes and the dangers, a philosophical perspective is imperative. Make a tax-deductible donation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225030","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}