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Transhumanism is an emergent school of speculative philosophy analysing or favouring the use of technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to improve the human condition.
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The question:
Given the feasibility and opportunity, would you alter yourself via technological means in order for self-improvement?
I sure would. I'd love to alter myself for improvement in whatever areas possible, given a reasonable factor of safety. I'd remove any genetic defects (I don't think I'd change anything else, tho - I'm okay with who I am), and I'd would kill for a few cybernetic enhancements. First off, I'd want a hard drive in me so I could easily store and retrieve information and I'd want to replace my left eye with some sort of advanced replacement. My vision in that eye sucks, and I'd like to be able to have magnified vision as well. There'd be a bunch of other things that I could think of, but those are the biggies and I don't want to sound like a sci-fi novel.
If you had an artificial means of living forever (or even just for an extremely long time) would you do it?
What, if any, do you think the limits should be on transhumanistic modification and why? (This is not intended to become a debate on the morality of transhumanism - please express your own views and leave others to theirs)
Do you think that transhuman modification would be beneficial to society? Why?
...I have my own opinions but I want to see what other people think first such as to avoid contaminating peoples' responses with my own.