Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Transhumanism and Augmentation
We are sticking today with the term augmentation as meaning the use of technology to alter a human away from that person's perceived natural state or away from the normal human bell curve. That leaves a lot of gray area like if altering someone to be taller is transhumanism, particularly if they aim to go from outside the normal range into the normal range. Transhumanism could also include the ability to change skin color or gender and each of those is variously controversial. We will for simplicity sake assume anything already considered acceptable to most people is not in the transhuman range like pacemakers or the typical limb prosthetic. In that case a prosthetic arm that had heat sensation and touch equal
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