{"id":24757,"date":"2016-04-18T01:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:14","slug":"transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism is Being Guided by Reason and the Word \u201cWhy\u201d"},"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\/TFErQ3XM__c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My new story for The Huffington Post on the virtue of reason and asking: Why?.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why.jpg\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:0}}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"2016-04-15-1460696511-7718468-futureimage.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Image of the future \u2014 By Smart Gadget Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The human race is on the threshold of so much revolutionary change. It\u2019s mostly due to the emerging field of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/a-new-generation-of-trans_b_4921319.html\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:1}}\">transhumanism<\/a>: a social movement that aims to use science and technology to radically modify the human body\u2014and modify the human experience. I get asked all the time: What is the best way to handle such changes\u2014like the merging of humans with machines to make cyborgs? Or spending more time in virtual reality then normal reality? Or biohacker brain implants that let us use telepathy with one another (which eventually will lead us all to be connected via a hive mind)?<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s easiest to let Jethro Knights\u2014protagonist of my philosophical, Libertarian novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-transhumanist-wager-and-the-terrifying-struggle-for-510012440\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{\u201cp\u201d:{\u201cmnid\u201d:\u201d entry_text\u201d,\u201d lnid\u201d:\u201d citation\u201d,\u201d mpid\u201d:2}}\">The Transhumanist Wager<\/a><\/em>\u2014answer. Below is a modified and condensed version of a speech he gives to the world, near the end of the book:<\/p>\n<p>There are two all-important ways to navigate a correct path in the new transhuman future: The first is to constantly use the utmost reasoning of which our brains are capable while negotiating our way through life; the second is to incessantly question everything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/transhumanism-is-being-guided-by-reason-and-the-word-why\">Continue reading \u201cTranshumanism is Being Guided by Reason and the Word \u201cWhy\u201d\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new story for The Huffington Post on the virtue of reason and asking: Why?. Image of the future \u2014 By Smart Gadget Technology The human race is on the threshold of so much revolutionary change. It\u2019s mostly due to the emerging field of transhumanism: a social movement that aims to use science and technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47,1501,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24757","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67686,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24757\/revisions\/67686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}