re. The medical field brought vaccines, antibiotics, transplants, and even contraception. These are all examples of overcoming biological limits. Baily stated further that use of the telephone and an airplane are natural examples of becoming more super human. While people take these changes in stride, they are more concerned with newer transhuman goals to become even more super-human.
Bostrom (2008) argued that transhumanist dreams are that technology helps them to overcome strife and limitations and this reduces inequality while enhancing ecological advantages and quality in human relationships. Global security is increased with technology. Transhumanism ideas are that human beings must use knowledge to overcome their imperfections and move in a unified direction, with international peace and cooperation. Transhumanism strives to save lives and prevent death. Aging and caused of illness are to be cured with transhuman technology. Bostrom stated that transhumanism simply provides people with the opportunity to explore posthuman realms and go beyond their limitations. It allows people to become smarter and it provides them with more freedom. Transhuman values include diversity, caring, improvement, enhancement of individual choice, peace, and health.
Transhumanism provides for self-transformation, physical enhancement, mental enhancement, amplification of intelligence, and life extension. It even provides for cryonics (Sandberg 2). Sandberg (2008) reported that transhumanism provides practical methods as well as the vision to transform the self and be well and possibility immortal. It allows for the notion that the person can and should enhance his intelligence
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