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