Is there any core values of transhumanism?
Note that the definition of transhumanism as “rational radical enhancements of the human condition” does contain an assumption that there has to be some underlying values being furthered – something is enhanced relative its past state. It also implies some concept of human condition (and of what is rational and radical, but I’ll leave those for another post). Where does these values come from? Either they are inherent in transhumanism, or they come from other assumed value systems such as political ideologies hooked on to transhumanism as some kind of external motivating engine. But in the later case it seems pointless to discuss transhumanism at all, since the issue would rather be “How should we socialists work to bring about the nanotechnology revolution” – transhumanism would simply be a part of the big program of the ideology than anything independent of the ideology. In this case the transhumanist forums would be just meeting places of people of different politics sharing a few g
