What do “transhuman” and “posthuman” mean?
transhuman is related to transhumanism, which is a philosophy of moving from the “human” present condition to a “pusthuman” future. This usually involves a core belief in a continued and accelerated evolution of life, usually focusing on intelligence and technology. There is also usually a core belief in the importance of proactive effort to further such results. This requires open-mindedness, optimism, affinity with new technology, and most of the other qualities cited above. posthuman is used to describe any of a wide variety of notional future life-forms that will have evolved from present-day humans. It can include any combination of enhanced abilities in physical, emotional, mental, intellectual and spiritual qualities. In general, the more of these dimensions are incorporated, the more extreme the improvements are, and the less resemblance the resulting posthuman has to historical humans, the more “extropian” it is. By (rpm), based on (mm)’s outline.
