'Exploring a Transhuman Utopia'

Exploring a Transhuman Utopia

Chapter One: Introductions

A Transhuman Utopia is not difficult to imagine, almost Atlantean yet more wise and global. The present day cultural and intellectual movement should lead towards the eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.
Today's Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies. Transhumanist are concerned with becoming Post-humans too.
A renowned man named Ronald Bailey says transhumanism is a "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative and idealistic aspirations of humanity". I agree with him.

Chapter two:  Immortality and Supremacy

Since the writings of Gilgamesh all kinds of people have strived for immortality and supremacy. Have any succeeded by Psychologist has asked me during my latest session, perhaps not yet, most claims are more myth and legend than reality, unless you had to be there and also find such people whom have had much time to prepare to stay anonymous. I could tell you more and all the things I discovered on Wikipedia's page of Transhumanism, but I won't, but you should check it out. Indeed, the content is fascinating, but bear with me my, this, essay shall be just as interesting I promise you that, dear reader.
Now what makes a person immortal and supreme? Rather, “What can make one such?”. Well, as a non-theist secular trans-humanist futurist, I will not and am unable by my scientific creed to endorse or vindicate that through supernatural wishful magical thinking we can trust, although it would be nice if it was easy to earn a deity's favour and reward for heroics, excellent morals in practise and always on duty. More likely through Cryonics and Cloning one may live forever, with Virtual Reality you may imagine and be convinced through lucidity that are both, Gene Therapy/RNA Interference may facilitate, Cybernetics may gift you with power, and Mind Uploading may allow you to permanently live differently perhaps in a synthetic body-machine.
Transhumanists, like me, believe that humans can and should use these technologies to become more than human.

Chapter Three: Technogaianism

Environmentalists should advocate Technogaianism as it is an ecological ideology based upon the belief that emerging technologies can help restore Earth's environment and that developing safe, clean, alternative technology as it is important goal to strive for.
Distinctively Transhumanism's particular focus is on the applications of technologies to the improvement of human bodies at the individual level, however many transhumanist theorists and advocates seek also to apply reason, science and technology for the purposes of reducing poverty, disease, disability and malnutrition around the globe. We are all inter-connected, if we are healthy and capable of saving the Earth then the Earth shall be healed.

Chapter Four: Social problems rectifiable

Many transhumanists, like futurists, actively assess the potential for future technologies and innovative social systems to improve the quality of all life and also seeking to eliminate congenital mental and physical barriers through making the material reality of the human condition fulfil the promise of legal and political equality.
A perfectionist ethical imperative is not only argued to be true for Transhumanist philosophers to exist for humans to strive for progress and improvement of the human condition, but also that it is possible and desirable for humanity to enter a transhuman phase of existence in which humans are in control of their own evolution. In such a phase deliberate change would replace natural evolution.
Self-improvement and body modification proponents such as gender transitioning technologies and techniques exist of which transhumanists tend to use that supposedly improve cognitive and physical performance, while engaging in routines and lifestyles designed to improve health and longevity.
The support, recognition and protection of cognitive liberty, morphological freedom and procreative liberty as civil liberties guarantee individuals the choice of using human enhancement technologies on themselves and their children.

Chapter Five: Space Colonization, Megascale Engineering, Nano-factories, and Artificial General Intelligence

In a Transhuman Utopia space colonies will become necessary to house all the rest of society whom would overpopulate Earth. Artificial gravity has to be created, before this can happen.

Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) would use a nano-factory and resources to manipulate self-replication ingredient recipes to manufacture macroscale products with atomic precision.
 In practical terms, nano-factories could make anything out of whatever resources are more appropriate, the interior mechanics of vehicles could be customised to become powerful in terms of thrust and durability, medical nano-devices could heal wounds and repair organs without the need for surgery, and air-suspended nano-devices could be configured to simulate practically any desired object on demand.
Great application comes great regulation.

Megascale Engineering refers to building structures at least 1,000 km in length in one dimension, either on Earth or within Space. With the self-replicating robotics, the production of such large structures could be done largely by autonomous drones, with intelligent agents only managing the highest top-level functions and architecture.



Artificial General Intelligence

Strong AI; thinking, feeling, imagining, creating, communicating, thoughtful synthetic intelligences with conscious experiences. AI is within technological reach, and present-day computing speeds are fast approaching the computing power of the human brain.
Imagine “Noetic Renaissance: the expansion of intelligence and experience beyond our wildest dreams.”

Chapter Six: Extra information

Raymond Kurzweil aims to believe that a countdown to when "human life will be irreversibly transformed" can be made through plotting major world events on a graph. Thus here are some moments in history where pioneer literature inspire further progress.

In the 1923 Daedalus: Science and the Future' essay by the British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane he mentions the first advanced fundamental ideas of transhumanism which he predicts that great benefits would come from applications of advanced sciences to human biology and that every such advance would first appear to someone as blasphemy or perversion, "indecent and unnatural". Aforementioned essayist author was also in particular interested in the development of the science of eugenics, ectogenesis (creating and sustaining life in an artificial environment) and the application of genetics to improve human characteristics, such as health and intelligence.

In the Japanese Metabolist architect produced Material and Man section of their manifesto in 1960, Noboru Kawazoe suggests that:
“After several decades, with the rapid progress of communication technology, every one will have a “brain wave receiver” in his ear, which conveys directly and exactly what other people think about him and vice versa. What I think will be known by all the people. There is no more individual consciousness, only the will of mankind as a whole.”

The Technological Singularity or the ultra-rapid advent of superhuman intelligence concept was first proposed by the British cryptologist I. J. Good in 1965:
“Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.”

In 1990 a transhumanist doctrine created by More, a strategic philosopher, which took the form of the Principles of Extropy, and laid the foundation of modern transhumanism by giving it a new definition:
“Transhumanism is a class of philosophies that seek to guide us towards a posthuman condition. Transhumanism shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life. [...] Transhumanism differs from humanism in recognizing and anticipating the radical alterations in the nature and possibilities of our lives resulting from various sciences and technologies [...].”
In 1992 the Extropy Institute was founded by More and Morrow, it became a catalyst for networking futurists and brainstorming new memeplexes by organizing a series of conferences and, more importantly, providing a mailing list, which exposed many to transhumanist views for the first time during the rise of cyberculture and the cyberdelic counterculture.

In 1998 the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) was founded by philosophers Nick Bostrom and David Pearce, of which it is an international non-governmental organization working toward the recognition of transhumanism as a legitimate subject of scientific inquiry and public policy. In 2002, the WTA modified and adopted The Transhumanist Declaration. The Transhumanist FAQ, prepared by the WTA, gave two formal definitions for transhumanism:

“The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.
The study of the ramifications, promises, and potential dangers of technologies that will enable us to overcome fundamental human limitations, and the related study of the ethical matters involved in developing and using such technologies.”

Transhumanism and philosophical posthumanism commonly feature the idea of a future vision of a new intelligent species, into which humanity will evolve and eventually will either supplement or supersede it.

Chapter Seven: Conclusions

If you knew not much about Transhumanism or what a utopia it could be before this essay then welcome to your new realisation of the evidence that this civilisation can and shall survive, bearing in mind people like us who want to actively contribute to saving it and endeavour to lead the masses to Bright Consciousness Raising.
On that bombshell, read about 'Masdar City' in Arabia and discover again how wonderful humanity is becoming more divinely smarter and wiser.