Greetings, transhumanist here. I enjoyed your video, thank you for making it. It's amazing to me that these concepts are so difficult to crack, given the thousands of years of intellectual probing and hundreds of years of medical discoveries we have accomplished. Our movement will need to proceed with caution, but progess we shall. The best we can offer at this point is the opportunity for individuals to chose their own limits with respect to enhancements. I don't shy away from the charge of eugenics, unlike many of my peers in the movement, because I feel it best to face whatever ethical issues may arise with complete honesty about what we're doing. It may well be that we should never enhance persons without their informed consent. In any event, thank you again for the video.
I don't expect response because it has been 5 years, but as someone who knows very little about transhumanism, what resources do you recommend that I should read? Thanks :)
@@calebp6114 I don't expect a response because it's been a year but I would highly recommend this channel for information about transhumanism: @hyperontic. In terms of reading, anything by Ray Kurzweil is a good start. For a critique of transhumanism I would recommend: 'Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea' by David Livingstone. Plus Mary Harrington is a vocal critic of transhumanism and she has interviews on TH-cam you can watch.
Very nice to bring attention to this topic. Of course the ground truth about personal identity matters a lot. Yet, even if, say, we were to prove scientifically that Empty Individualism is true, evolutionary selection pressures would still favor those who believe otherwise. I talked about this in an article I wrote called "Ontological Qualia: The Future of Personal Identity" (which you can google). I predict that we will indeed experience a sort of "Personal Identity War" in which people with some self-concepts will be motivated to replicate in weird and unexpected ways.
What if by adding capacities, we will also add some primitive form of artificial intelligence? There will be multiple entities inside the human head and it will be hard for us to distinguish who do we talk to - the human, or the "social skill amplification bot". What if the human mind inside the head is dead, and we talking to a bot?
Look up the modularity hypothesis of psychology, that the mind is already segmented into multiple domains that have specific mechanisms. Also individuals that have had their corpus colossum severed.
Greetings, transhumanist here. I enjoyed your video, thank you for making it. It's amazing to me that these concepts are so difficult to crack, given the thousands of years of intellectual probing and hundreds of years of medical discoveries we have accomplished. Our movement will need to proceed with caution, but progess we shall. The best we can offer at this point is the opportunity for individuals to chose their own limits with respect to enhancements. I don't shy away from the charge of eugenics, unlike many of my peers in the movement, because I feel it best to face whatever ethical issues may arise with complete honesty about what we're doing. It may well be that we should never enhance persons without their informed consent. In any event, thank you again for the video.
I don't expect response because it has been 5 years, but as someone who knows very little about transhumanism, what resources do you recommend that I should read? Thanks :)
@@calebp6114 I don't expect a response because it's been a year but I would highly recommend this channel for information about transhumanism: @hyperontic. In terms of reading, anything by Ray Kurzweil is a good start. For a critique of transhumanism I would recommend: 'Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea' by David Livingstone. Plus Mary Harrington is a vocal critic of transhumanism and she has interviews on TH-cam you can watch.
@@calebp6114 My whole channel is videos about the Transhumanism concept (the plausibility, science, & philosophy of it). Hope they help.
@@hyperontic Thanks, I'll check it out!
Very nice to bring attention to this topic. Of course the ground truth about personal identity matters a lot. Yet, even if, say, we were to prove scientifically that Empty Individualism is true, evolutionary selection pressures would still favor those who believe otherwise.
I talked about this in an article I wrote called "Ontological Qualia: The Future of Personal Identity" (which you can google). I predict that we will indeed experience a sort of "Personal Identity War" in which people with some self-concepts will be motivated to replicate in weird and unexpected ways.
What if by adding capacities, we will also add some primitive form of artificial intelligence? There will be multiple entities inside the human head and it will be hard for us to distinguish who do we talk to - the human, or the "social skill amplification bot". What if the human mind inside the head is dead, and we talking to a bot?
Look up the modularity hypothesis of psychology, that the mind is already segmented into multiple domains that have specific mechanisms. Also individuals that have had their corpus colossum severed.