<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:17 AM, <A href="mailto:extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-request@lists.extropy.org</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Video interview with Aubrey is now online:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/06/18/siai-interview-series-aubrey-de-grey-methuselah-foundation/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/06/18/siai-interview-series-aubrey-de-grey-methuselah-foundation/ </SPAN></A><BR><BR>-Tyler</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Aubrey de Grey questions the meaning of the term transhuman. Does it mean transition toward a posthuman state that regards the human in a way similar to the way we humans now regard Neanderthals as subhuman? -- Or does de Grey's preferred meaning, ascribed to Huxley, suit us better, to wit: trancending of previous humanity while remaining human? I haven't chosen a position on this question and I'd like the see what others here think. Do humans possess a certain defining attribute that deserves to be retained by all our descendants? Can we name it? -- Thomas <BR><DIV> <DIV style="text-align: center;"><A href="mailto:Thomas@ThomasOliver.net">Thomas@ThomasOliver.net</A></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>