{"id":96349,"date":"2019-09-17T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/prof-steve-fuller-on-transhumanism-ask-yourself-what-is-human"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T21:42:46","slug":"prof-steve-fuller-on-transhumanism-ask-yourself-what-is-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/prof-steve-fuller-on-transhumanism-ask-yourself-what-is-human","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?"},"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\/ndDBvGFUvWw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Steve Fuller is the author of 25 books including a trilogy relating to the idea of a \u2018post-\u2019 or \u2018trans-\u2018human future, and most recently, Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Age.<\/p>\n<p>During this 2h 15 min interview with Steve Fuller we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the social foundations of knowledge and our shared love of books; Transhumanism as a scientistic way of understanding who we are; the proactionary vs the precautionary principle; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point; Julian and Aldous Huxley\u2019s diverging takes on Transhumanism; David Pearce\u2019s Hedonistic Imperative as a concept straight out of Brave New World; the concept and meaning of being human, transhuman and posthuman; humanity\u2019s special place in the cosmos; my Socratic Test of (Artificial) Intelligence; Transhumanism as a materialist theology \u2013 i.e. religion for geeks; Elon Musk, cosmism and populating Mars; de-extinction, genetics and the sociological elements of a given species; the greatest issues that humanity is facing today; AI, the Singularity and armed conflict; morphological freedom and becoming human; longevity and the \u201cDeath is Wrong\u201d argument; Zoltan Istvan and the Transhumanist Wager; Transhumanism as a way of entrenching rather than transcending one\u2019s original views\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As always you can listen to or download the audio file above or scroll down and watch the video interview in full. To show your support you can write a review on iTunes, make a direct donation or become a patron on Patreon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Steve Fuller is the author of 25 books including a trilogy relating to the idea of a \u2018post-\u2019 or \u2018trans-\u2018human future, and most recently, Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Age. During this 2h 15 min interview with Steve Fuller we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,12,412,269,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96349","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}