{"id":87958,"date":"2019-02-19T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/james-hughes-problems-of-transhumanism-a-review-intro-part-1"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:02:36","slug":"james-hughes-problems-of-transhumanism-a-review-intro-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/james-hughes-problems-of-transhumanism-a-review-intro-part-1","title":{"rendered":"James Hughes\u2019 Problems of Transhumanism: A Review (Intro + Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Part 1 of a 5-part series by USTP\u2019s Foreign Ambassador in Nigeria, Chogwu Abdul, as he explores the thought-provoking intricacies of James Hughes\u2019 \u201cProblems of Transhumanism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party for free, no matter where you reside: https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/membership\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nOjochogwu Abdul<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/p>\n

In 2010, James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), having then just stepped down from the Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist Association (presently known as Humanity+), took up an interesting challenge during the Spring of that year to reflect on the current state of transhumanist thought and determine what the questions were that the transhumanist movement needed to answer in order to move forward. Introducing a series of articles with which he hoped to navigate through a number of heady ideas and issues concerning transhumanism, Hughes opens by posing: \u201cWhat are the current unresolved issues in transhumanist thought? Which of these issues are peculiar to transhumanist philosophy and the transhumanist movement, and which are more actually general problems of Enlightenment thought?\u201d Further, he queried, \u201cWhich of these are simply inevitable differences of opinion among the more or less like-minded, and which need a decisive resolution to avoid tragic errors of the past?\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is Part 1 of a 5-part series by USTP\u2019s Foreign Ambassador in Nigeria, Chogwu Abdul, as he explores the thought-provoking intricacies of James Hughes\u2019 \u201cProblems of Transhumanism.\u201d Become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party for free, no matter where you reside: https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/membership\/ Ojochogwu Abdul Introduction In 2010, James Hughes, Executive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87958","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}