In 1999, the WTA drafted and adopted The Transhumanist Declaration.^[1] The Transhumanist FAQ, also prepared by the WTA, gave two formal definitions for transhumanism:^[2]

1. 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.
2. 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.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to transhumanism:

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[edit] Transhumanist currents

• Abolitionism, an ethical ideology based upon a perceived obligation to use technology to eliminate involuntary suffering in all sentient life.^[3]
• Democratic transhumanism, a political ideology synthesizing liberal democracy, social democracy, radical democracy and transhumanism.^[4]
• Extropianism, an early school of transhumanist thought characterized by a set of principles advocating a proactive approach to human evolution.^[5]
• Immortalism, a moral ideology based upon the belief that technological immortality is possible and desirable, and advocating research and development to ensure its realization.^[6]
• Libertarian transhumanism, a political ideology synthesizing libertarianism and transhumanism.^[7]
• Postgenderism, a social philosophy which seeks the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the application of advanced biotechnology and assisted reproductive technologies.^[8]
• Singularitarianism, a moral ideology based upon the belief that a technological singularity is possible, and advocating deliberate action to effect it and ensure its safety.^[9]
• Technogaianism, an ecological ideology based upon the belief that emerging technologies can help restore Earth's environment, and that developing safe, clean, alternative technology should therefore be an important goal of environmentalists.^[4]

[edit] Transhumanist technologies

Transhumanists believe that humans can and should use technologies to become more than human. Examples of the types of technologies that have become the focus of transhumanism include:

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[edit] Transhumanist organizations

[edit] Leaders and scholars in transhumanism

Some people who have made a major impact on the advancement of transhumanism:

[edit] Transhumanist concepts

[edit] See also

Transhumanism portal

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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• Transhumanism at the Open Directory Project
• Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University