{"id":86611,"date":"2019-01-12T06:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-posthuman"},"modified":"2019-01-12T06:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T14:22:23","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-posthuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-posthuman","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be posthuman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-posthuman.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924\">https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bioscience and medical technology are propelling us beyond the old human limits. Are <i>Extremes<\/i> and <i>The Posthuman<\/i> good guides to this frontier?<\/p>\n<p>By David Cohen<\/p>\n<p>HOW would you like to be a posthuman? You know, a person who has gone beyond the \u201cmaximum attainable capacities by any current human being without recourse to new technological means\u201d, as philosopher Nick Bostrum of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford so carefully described it in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbostrom.com\/posthuman.pdf\">recent paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21829162-400-what-does-it-mean-to-be-posthuman\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21829162&#45;400-what...posthuman\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924 Bioscience and medical technology are propelling us beyond the old human limits. Are Extremes and The Posthuman good guides to this frontier? By David Cohen HOW would you like to be a posthuman? You know, a person who has gone beyond the \u201cmaximum attainable capacities by any current human being without recourse to new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86611","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}