[ExI] Taxonomy of Human Enhancement

[natasha at natasha.cc]

   Great catch!  I'll dig in! 

   Best,

   Natasha

   Quoting John Tracy Cunningham <johntc at gmail.com>:

> Morrison at Exeter in his 2008
> paper<http://exeter.academia.edu/MichaelMorrison/Papers[1]>,
> "Beyond the perils and promise...", says that the term enhancement grew out
> of the bioethical debate c. 1980 over gene therapy.  See the section
> beginning p. 8, "The origins and shaping of enhancement as a category," but
> other parts of the paper also address this question.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>wrote:
>
>> I did find the term used by Brodey and Lingren. I believe they were both at
>> MIT in the '60s.  Here is a link between human enhancement and AI:
>>
>> "In 1969, Warren M. Brodey and Nilo Lingren co-authored 'Human enhancement
>> through evolutionary technology' (87-97) as a proposition that fosters
>> controlling man?s skills and his environment though artificial
>> intelligence.
>>
>> 'There is a need now, more than ever before, for men to stretch their
>> capacities in what we shall call evolutionary skills. Moreover, it is at
>> last becoming possible technologically to enhance these skills in man by
>> incorporating somewhat similar evolutionary skills in the machines which we
>> design and build'(Brodey & Lingren 1969:1)." (Vita-More 2011)
>>
>> Brodey, Warren M. and Lindgren, Nilo. (1967) ?Human enhancement through
>> evolutionary technology? in _IEET Spectrum_, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1967,
>> The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., pp 87-97.
>>
>> This links human enhancement to a more cyberentics approach, but I'm not
>> sure if this is where transhumanists started using the phrase.
>>
>> Natasha
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Natasha
>> Vita-More
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 7:04 AM
>> To: 'ExI chat list'
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Taxonomy of Human Enhancement
>>
>> Human enhancement is a different concept than life extension, although it
>> can include it but does not have to, whereas life extension must include
>> enhancement. Fedorov was passionate about resurrecting the dead and Finot
>> envisioned humans creating new life forms on the molecular level, he
>> neither
>> wrote about "human enhancement".  Funny you should mention Ilia though
>> because yesterday we were working on a project for the upcoming Israel
>> festival on radical life extension. :-)
>>
>> Anyway, thanks but I need to know where the phrase "human enhancement"
>> originated because it has matured into a possible field and no one has
>> written about this and it would be good to credit the folks who came up
>> with
>> it.  I suppose it could as Roco and Bainbridge since they developed NBIC
>> (as
>> far as I know, but someone please correct me if I am wrong.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Natasha
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
>> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of BillK
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:51 AM
>> To: ExI chat list
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Taxonomy of Human Enhancement
>>
>> 2012/1/9 Natasha Vita-More wrote:
>> > If anyone knows where human enhancement, as a phrase that refers to life
>> > extension, elevating the human condition, and uploading, please let me
>> know!
>> >
>>
>>
>> I think this might help.
>>
>> <http://jetpress.org/v21/stambler.htm[2]>
>>
>> Life extension ? a conservative enterprise? Some fin-de-siècle and
>> early twentieth-century precursors of transhumanism
>> Ilia Stambler
>>
>> Abstract
>>
>>   The beginning of the modern period in the pursuit of radical human
>> enhancement and longevity can be traced to fin-de-siècle/early
>> twentieth-century scientific and technological optimism and
>> therapeutic activism. The works of several authors of the period ?
>> Fedorov, Stephens, Bogdanov, Nietzsche and Finot ? reveal conflicting
>> ideological and social pathways toward the goals of human enhancement
>> and life extension.
>>
>> (Also see list of references at the end of the document).
>>
>>
>> BillK
>>
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