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Steve Fuller - Who Will Recognise Humanity 2.0 - And Will It Recognise Us? - 0 views

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  • : What is the story that leads up to humanity 2.0 and is it co-extensive with the history of science? ‘
  • transhumanism: a term that he’s careful to distinguish from posthumanism. Posthumanism, he explains, takes a Darwinian standpoint on life; it’s a ‘species egalitarian view’ in which there is a definite respect for life, but no respect for the qualities of human beings that distinguish us from other life-forms. ‘There is no humanity 2.0 in this picture, there’s just post-humanity,’
  • Darwin was very reluctant to support movements in the late 19th-century that we would now associate with transhumanist thinking, such as eugenics and vivisection
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  • process in human evolution, and that we could potentially take control of it, emerged in the 1930s with figures like Sir Julian Huxley.
  • one organism that can understand the whole thing - and then take control of it. That was the promise of transhumanism
  • The next phase of transhumanism is the converging technologies agenda: ‘The particular technologies we’re talking about are based on nanotechnology, biotechnology, information science and the cognitive sciences.
  • r for the purpose of enhancing human beings,
  • push-back in the idea that humans can raise themselves to this higher level and governments have always been worried about these advance forms of technology and knowledge actually getting into the hands of people who can use them for their own purpose
  • no overarching, normative sense of humanity
  • Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is best known for his work in the field of ‘social epistemology’, which is concerned with the normative foundations of organized inquiry.
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