[ExI] Is Transhumanism Coercive?

[Natasha Vita-More]

Sorry for top posting. Anders is right.  In fact, I have read several
dissertations expressly on "transhumanism". My phd is most definitely on
transhumanism, although my advisors were strongly opposed to me using
transhumanism in the title.


Natasha


Natasha Vita-More
Chair, Humanity+
PhD Researcher, Univ. of Plymouth, UK
Co-Editor, The Transhumanist Reader


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 3:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Is Transhumanism Coercive?

Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:37:16PM -0400, Joseph Bloch wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm more than a little worried about this causal bandying about of 
>> "expert transhumanists" as a phrase. It seems to carry with it the 
>> implication that those of us without PhD's should just hush up and 
>> let
>>     
>
> Haven't seen any PhDs in transhumanism. 
>   

Maybe not *in* transhumanism, but I recently met a student working on a PhD
on transhumanism. And she contacted me because she felt I was an "expert"
transhumanist :-)

I do think we can and should have a connoisseurship of transhumanism. 
While each of us individually cannot do or argue all the fields encompassed
by our topic, we can learn to recognize signs of quality thinking. None of
us are experts on everything, but we can learn to recognize who is good at
what kind of questions.

--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University 

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