{"id":83073,"date":"2018-09-26T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-ethics-of-transhumanism-and-the-cult-of-futurist-biotech"},"modified":"2018-09-26T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:22:11","slug":"the-ethics-of-transhumanism-and-the-cult-of-futurist-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-ethics-of-transhumanism-and-the-cult-of-futurist-biotech","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics Of Transhumanism And The Cult Of Futurist Biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Certainly, there are those in the movement who espouse the most extreme virtues of transhumanism such as replacing perfectly healthy body parts with artificial limbs. But medical ethicists raise this and other issues as the reason why transhumanism is so dangerous to humans when what is considered acceptable life-enhancement has virtually no checks and balances over who gets a say when we \u201cgo too far.\u201d For instance, Kevin Warwick of Coventry University, a cybernetics expert, asked the Guardian<\/i>, \u201cWhat is wrong with replacing imperfect bits of your body with artificial parts that will allow you to perform better \u2013 or which might allow you to live longer?\u201d while another doctor stated that he would have \u201cno part\u201d in such surgeries. There is, after all, a difference between placing a pacemaker or performing laser eye surgery on the body to prolong human life and lend a greater degree of quality to human life, and that of treating the human body as a tabula rasa upon which to rewrite what is, effectively, the natural course of human life.<\/p>\n

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While many https:\/\/whatistranshumanism.org\/#what-is-a-transhuman<\/a>\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d rel=\u201d nofollow noopener noreferrer\u201d data-ga-track=\u201d ExternalLink: https:\/\/whatistranshumanism.org\/#what-is-a-transhuman<\/a>\u201d> transhumanist ideals<\/a> remain purely theoretical in scope, what is clear is that females are the class of humans who are being theorised out of social and political discourse. Indeed, much of the social philosophy surrounding transhumanist projects sets out to eliminate gender in the human species through the application of advanced biotechnology and assisted reproductive technologies, ultimately inspired by Shulamith Firestone\u2019s https:\/\/teoriaevolutiva.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/fireston\u2026lution.pdf<\/a>\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d rel=\u201d nofollow noopener noreferrer\u201d data-ga-track=\u201d ExternalLink: https:\/\/teoriaevolutiva.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/fireston\u2026lution.pdf<\/a>\u201d> The Dialectic of Sex<\/i><\/a> <\/i>and much of Donna Haraway\u2019s writing on https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/arts\/english\/currentstudents\/under\u2026sm_in_the_<\/a>\u2026pdf\u201d target=\u201d_blank\u201d rel=\u201d nofollow noopener noreferrer\u201d data-ga-track=\u201d ExternalLink: https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/arts\/english\/currentstudents\/under\u2026sm_in_the_<\/a>\u2026pdf\u201d> cyborgs<\/a>. From parthenogenesis to the creation of artificial wombs, this movement seeks to remove the specificity of not gender, but sex, through the elision of medical terminology and procedures which portend to advance a technological human-cyborg built on the ideals of a post-sex model.<\/p>\n

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Certainly, there are those in the movement who espouse the most extreme virtues of transhumanism such as replacing perfectly healthy body parts with artificial limbs. But medical ethicists raise this and other issues as the reason why transhumanism is so dangerous to humans when what is considered acceptable life-enhancement has virtually no checks and balances [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,30,1901,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-ethics","category-sex","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}