Transhumanist values

Abstract

Suppose we can improve the human condition through the use of biotechnology, but that this may require changing the condition of being human. Should we? Transhumanism says yes. Transhumanism is the bold view that humans should exploit technological inventions that improve, lengthen, and yes, possibly change the lives of human kind. Transhumanists maintain that we should strive to overcome human limitations and weaknesses. Perhaps most importantly, transhumanists believe that we should develop a new set of values that are beyond human values and that will make lives better the world over (better than we have been able to do with current human values alone). In this paper, Bostrom gives a bold look at a possibly radically different future for humans, transhumans, and possibly posthumans that may be made possible by technological advances.