What is it to be "human"?
Is it a biological notion, inscribed in our Homo sapiens DNA, or is it this feeling of sharing a culture and a common morality?
The word 'transhumanism' is said to have been coined by the French engineer Jean Coutrot in 1937
Transhumanism is an international secular philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates improving the human condition by increasing these abilities, whether physical or mental, through advanced use of nanotechnology and biotechnology.
they focus on slowing aging and associated diseases. The ultimate goal: immortality or allowing humans to live as long as they wish.
Transhumanist thinkers are concerned with the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations as well as the ethics of using these technologies.
Some transhumanists believe that human beings may eventually be able to transform into beings with such enhanced abilities relative to the current condition that they would deserve the label of posthumans.
Some authors believe that humanity is already transhuman, thanks to the considerable progress of the last centuries, and in particular the last decades, in view of certain electronic prostheses that we like so much, such as our smartphones, as well as on the medical level. However, current humanity would not be so in a conscious way. Therefore humanity cannot be qualified as transhumanist.
"There is nothing constant except change."
Buddha
"movement that embodies the most daring, courageous, imaginative and idealistic aspirations of humanity."
Ronald Bailey