[ExI] Posthumanism vs. Transhumanism

[Mike Dougherty]

On 5/6/07, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree on all that you say Samantha, and your "human = just a matter
> of how you plan to chose to label whatever it is that you become" is a
> valid point.
> But I could say the same of that toddler who was playing with blocks
> so many years ago. I am not him according to every objective criteria
> that I can think of, but I am him in some other very real sense.

Won't the definition of "human" evolve with humans?

I don't call people with bluetooth headsets and smartphones "cyborgs"
- they're still human.  How far beyond the mean does one have to be to
get the exemption from humanity?  On what dimension of measure?
Physically you can be uploaded, does that remove your humanity by
definition, or are the goals of your existance the measure of your
humanity?  I assumed this was what Giuli0 was talking about.  Of
course the lightspeed spread in all directions from humanity's seed
point may cause the term to become almost meaninglessly general - but
we'll address that as it happens.