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{{Ideology
{{Ideology
|title = [[File: Transh.png]] Transhumanism
|title=[[File:Transh.png]] Transhumanism
|image = TranshumanismBall.png
|image=Cyberpunk H+.png
|caption = «Beep boop»
|caption="Beep boop" «System Activated»
|alignments=
|alignments = [[File:Nonquadrant.png]] [[:Category:Non-Quadrant|Non-Quadrant]]<br>
[[File:Transh.png]] [[:Category:Transhumanists|Transhumanists]]
[[File:Nonquadrant.png]] [[:Category:Non-Quadrant|{{Color|#FFFFFF|'''Non-Quadrant'''}}]]<br>
{{Info|Transhumanists}}<br>
|influences = [[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism]] (some)<br>
|influences=
[[File:Humanismpix.png]] [[Humanism]] <br>
[[File:Post-Industrialism.png]] [[Post-Industrialism]]
[[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism]] (Some)<br>
|influenced = [[File: Antr.png]] [[Anarcho-Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File:Humanismpix.png]] {{PHB|Humanism}} <br>
[[File: Captrans.png]] [[Capitalist Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]] (by [[File:Dugin.png]] Dugin)<br>
[[File:Demtrans.png]] [[Democratic Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File:Postindusnewicon.png]] [[Post-Industrialism]]
|influenced={{ScrollBox|
[[File:Ectrans.png]] [[Eco-Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File: Libtrans.png]] [[Libertarian Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File:AnarchoFrontierism.png]] [[Anarcho-Frontierism]]<br>
[[File:Nattrans.png]] [[National Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File:Antr.png]] [[Anarcho-Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File:Soctrans.png]] [[Socialist Transhumanism]] <br>
[[File:Captrans.png]] [[Capitalist Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File:Front.png]] [[Anarcho-Frontierism]] <br>
[[File:Demtrans.png]] [[Democracy|Democratic Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File:Cyberfem.png]] [[CyberFeminism]] <br>
[[File:Libtrans.png]] [[Libertarian Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File: Falgsc.png]] [[FALGSC]] <br>
[[File:Nattrans.png]] [[Nazi Transhumanism]]<br>
[[File:Post-Genderism.png]] [[Postgenderism]]<br>
[[File:Neotechnocracy.png]] [[Technocracy|Neo-Technocracy]]<br>
[[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism]]<br>
[[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism]]<br>
[[File:Antrans.png]] [[Technoprimitivism]]
[[File:Post-Genderism.png]] [[Postgenderism]]<br>
[[File:Soctrans.png]] [[Socialist Transhumanism]]<br>
|themecolor = #156698
[[File:Ectrans.png]] [[Technogaianism]]<br>
|textcolor = #ffffff
[[File:Techglobe.png]] [[Globalism|Technological Globalization]]<br>
|aliases = H+
[[File:Transamogus.png]] Amogus<br>
Cyborg
|greatest_achievement=
|gangs=Probably a Robot Gang
|likes = Technology
Science Fiction
|dislikes=Anprim
|definition=
|song=[https://youtu.be/N3472Q6kvg0 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - Rules of Nature Extended] <br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AiUB0PJG4U Robo-sapien] <br>
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdeYwObD-j4 Robot Rock] <br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydNF8tuVmU Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger] <br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-QXey3gPk We Are The Battery Human] <br>
<s> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grd-K33tOSM Among Us Drip Theme] </s> <br>
|book=
|year=
|country=
|theorists=RoboCop
|börk=
}}
}}
|themecolor=#156698
'''Transhumanism''', often abbreviated to '''H+''', is an ideology on the far pro-technology end of the technological spectrum, that believes that everyone should upgrade themselves with technology to overcome both the most basic and most complex of Humanity's challenges and eventually conquer the galaxy. The ultimate objective is for all persons to reach immortality and transcend all other political theorems.
|textcolor=#ffffff
|aliases={{Collapse|
H+<br>
Human+<br>
Humanism+<br>
Cyborgism<br>
RoboCop (By the design)<br>
The Cybermen (Doctor Who)<br>
Replicants (Blade Runner)<br>
Augmenticists (Warhammer 40,000)<br>
{{Alias|Honk.png|Satirism|[[File:Transamogus.png]] Amogus}}<br>
}}
|likes=
Technology<br>
Science Fiction<br>
The strength and certainty of steel
|dislikes=
The human condition<br>
The weakness of the flesh
|song=
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsX9WUdYnU Children of the Omnissiah]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usCmJDMt16Y Transhuman Trance ♪]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AiUB0PJG4U Robo-sapien]<br>
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdeYwObD-j4 Robot Rock]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydNF8tuVmU Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-QXey3gPk We Are The Battery Human]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vfkzMAWWKE Rules of Nature]<br>
[https://youtu.be/EW-00jQPOQQ Upgrade!]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8QyZ2CEEE&ab_channel=AshTree Dr. Steel - The Singularity]<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LR9Q-uljM0 Call of Duty: Black Ops III Main Theme]<br>
<s>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grd-K33tOSM Among Us Drip Theme]</s><br>
*[[File:ChrH+icon.png]] '''Christian Transhumanism'''
[https://youtu.be/e9EqU9y69vU?si=5I3O9UrydcfR29MP Meganeko - The Cyber Grind] <br>
[https://youtu.be/AnLuKx_c7Ds?si=lMqv2aF7-94gliTd Heaven Pierce Her - The Death of God's Will]
|sub=
[[File:Smol biotranshumanism.png]] '''Bio-Transhumanism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:NeoEugenics.png]] [[Eugenicism|Neo-Eugenicism]]
*[[File:Ectrans.png]] [[Technogaianism]] (some)
}}
[[File:Contrans.png]] '''Conservative Transhumanism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Conservative.png]] [[Conservatism]]
}}
[[File:ChrH+icon.png]] '''Christian Transhumanism'''{{Collapse|
*[[File:Cdem.png]] Christianity
*[[File:Socjust.png]] [[Progressivism|Social Justice]]
*[[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]]
}}
[[File:RelH+icon.png]] '''Religious Transhumanism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Religious.png]] Faith
*[[File:Bud.png]] [[Buddhist Theocracy|Buddhism]] (Some)
*[[File:Christy.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Christianity]] (Some)
*[[File:Cultism.png]] [[Cultism]] (Some)
}}
|school =
|regional=
|theorists=
*[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism|FM-2030]] (1930-2000) [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran/[[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}}
*[[File:Eugen.png]] [[w:Julian Huxley|Sir Julian Sorell Huxley]] (1887-1975) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] {{PBW|UKball|UK}}
*[[File:WEF.png]] [[State Liberalism|Klaus Schwab]] (1938-) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] {{PBW|Germanyball|Germany}}
*[[File:Transh.png]] [[w:Max More|Max More]] (1964-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] {{PBW|UKball|UK}}
*[[File:ElonMusk.png]] [[Alt-Lite|Elon Musk]] (1971-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA/ [[File:Cball-South_Africa.png]] {{PBW|South Africaball|South Africa}}

}}
<blockquote>''This page covers transhumanism in terms of politics. For a page on transhumanism from a philosophical perspective, see the [[File:Philosophyball_icon.png]] [https://philosophyball.miraheze.org/wiki/Transhumanism Philosophyball Page]''</blockquote>
{{Quote|
quote="I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."
|speaker=[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism|FM-2030]]
}}
'''Transhumanism''', often abbreviated to '''H+''', is an ideology that supports the usage of emerging technologies to enhance humanity and overcome it's own physical limitations.

Due to the nature of transhumanism, it can applied alongside almost any other civic, economic or ideological system, with the few exceptions being ideologies that [[File:Anprim.png]] [[:Category:Primitivist|reject technological development]] or oppose transhumanism as a whole.

==History==
Transhumanist ideas first arouse out of the [[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism|eugenics movement]] through certain eugenicists trying to grasp at the question of "Can human biology be improved beyond humans limits?" this first started with the 1920s. Soon after there were multiple ideas regarding the possibility of bionic implants and their use to improve human biology.

The effect science fiction had on the coming Transhumanist movement is not to be understated as it was a incredibly impactful literary genre and allowed the general population to grasp at Transhumanist ideas and peak into the future and it allowed sciene fiction authors to explore ideas of that proto-Transhumanists posed.

==Beliefs==
Transhumanists believe in the enhancing of the human to transcend the human. That base idea is why it is called Transhumanism. Transhumanism very much though can not be said to be [[File:Anti-Humanism.png]] {{PHB|Anti-Humanism|Anti-Humanist}} or [[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism|Post-Humanist]] as its central goal is the improving of the human condition and not the abolition or destruction of the human.

Improving of the human (condition) for Transhumanism can be done through many ways. [[File:Smol biotranshumanism.png]] Biological improvement is one of these as is also mechanical improvement.

==Variants==
===Sub-Ideologies===
====[[File:Smol biotranshumanism.png]] Bio-Transhumanism====
'''Bio-Transhumanism''' advocates for the goals of transhumanism to be practiced through the use of biotechnology as opposed to mechanical technology, such as gene-editing and CRISPR-based methods. Most bio-transhumanists hold the belief that biological implants are more suited for humans than mechanical implants, though some see bio-transhumanism as simply just a different method.

===Schools of Thought===
====[[File:RelH+icon.png]] Religious Transhumanism====
'''Religious Transhumanism, or f+ (faith+)''' is a school of thought that seeks to combine religious belief with transhumanist characters. Many different religious believers apply this differently, on the small scale of chasing traditionally religious ideas such as immortality to cults directly implementing transhuman characteristics into their belief, such as Raëlism.

Religious thinkers criticized the philosophy of transhumanism as offering no eternal truths or relationship with the divine, to which transhumanists say that is a fatal failure to understand the content of Transhumanist philosophy.

===[[File:ChrH+icon.png]] Christian Transhumanism [[File:ChrH+iconalt.png]]===
'''Christian Transhumanism (✞+ or C+)''' believes that intentional use of technology can empower our growth of identity as made in the image of God. It believes in progress along every dimension such as social, technological and spiritual, and that God's mission involves the transformation and renewal of humanity to defeat problems such as hunger, oppression and even death.

Many people believe that this is contradictory. They cite that any attempt to merge Transhumanism with Christianity is misguided, as transhumanism is materialistic and rejects the idea of sin.

==Personality and Behaviour==
Transhumanism is characterized as a stereotypical robot depicted in various medias with various examples of the behaviours:
*Being noisy and glitchy at any time
*Going hostile and harming other ideologies when corrupted by a virus
*While it's a rare trope used by popular medias, Being voiced by a Synthetic Text to Speech voice program


==How to Digitally Represent==
==How to Digitally Represent==
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}}
}}


==Variants==
==Saved Relationships==
==Saved Relationships==
=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Positive===
=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Positive===
*[[File: Technocracy.png]] [[Technocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on technology. Also built my first augments.")
*[[File:Technocracy.png]] [[Technocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on technology. Also built my first augments.")
*[[:Category:Transhumanists|Offspring]] - print("Shares opinion on technology.")
*[[:Category:Transhumanists|Offspring]] - print("Shares opinion on technology.") {{Collapse|
*[[File:ReactPix.png]] [[Reactionary Modernism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and religious.")
**[[File:Antr.png]] [[Anarcho-Transhumanism]] [[File:Antech.png]] - print("Wants technological development to be free from the state (especially anti-technological ones).")
*[[File:Fut2.png]] [[Futurism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and aesthetics.")
**[[File:Captrans.png]] [[Capitalist Transhumanism]]- print("Wants technological advancement to be a profitable enterprise. Love the cyberpunk aesthetics.")
*[[File:Post-Industrialism.png]] [[Post-Industrialism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and influenced by him.")
**[[File:Cyberfem.png]] [[CyberFeminism]] - print("Wants to use technology to bring about gender equality.")
*[[File:Humanismpix.png]] [[Humanism]] - print("Shares opinion on humanity.")
**[[File:Post-Genderism.png]] [[Postgenderism]] - print("Wants to go further than the above and abolish gender altogether. I like your style.")
**[[File:Libtrans.png]] [[Libertarian Transhumanism]] - print("Wants to protect liberty through the use of technology.")
**[[File:Soctrans.png]] [[Socialist Transhumanism]] - print("Wants to use technology to liberate the workers.")
**[[File:Falgsc.png]] [[Fully Automated Gay Space Communism]] [[File:FALGSC_(Alt).png]] - print("An LGBTQ+ version of the above.")
**[[File:Cybercom.png]] [[Cybercommunism]] - print("We will continue with what Salvador Allende has started.")
**[[File:Ectrans.png]] [[Technogaianism]] [[File:Techgaia_alt.png]] - print("Who said that you can't protect the environment and support technological advancement at the same time?")
}}
*[[File:ReactPix.png]] [[Reactionary Modernism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and very religious, supports building a different modernity.")
*[[File:Fut2.png]] [[Futurism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology.")
*[[File:Postindusnewicon.png]] [[Post-Industrialism]] - print("More moderate opinion on technology and influenced by him.")
*[[File:FDF-Pirate.png]] [[Piratism]], [[File:Neotech.png]] [[Technoliberalism]], and [[File:E-Democracy.png]] [[E-Democracy]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:Humanismpix.png]] {{PHB|Humanism}} - print("Shares opinion on humanity.")
*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]] - print("Also the same.")
*[[File:Scientocracy_Small.png]] [[Scientocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on science, technology and humanity.")
*[[File:Scientocracy_Small.png]] [[Scientocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on science, technology and humanity.")
*[[File:Nooc.png]] [[Noocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and encourages me to make people wiser.")
*[[File:Nooc.png]] [[Noocracy]] - print("Shares opinion on science and encourages me to make people wiser.")
*[[File:Accel.png]] [[Accelerationism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and wants to speed progress.")
*[[File:Accel.png]] [[Accelerationism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology and wants to speed up progress.")


=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Neutral===
=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Neutral===
*[[File:Antrans.png]] [[Archeofuturism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology but opposite opinion on civilization.")
*[[File:Nattrans.png]] [[Nazi Transhumanism]] - print("Wants to use technology to advance the nation-state. <s>But you are too genocidal for my tastes. Also, I am not him.</s>")
*[[File:Archeofuturist.png]] [[Archeofuturism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology but opposite opinion on civilization.")
*[[File:Envi.png]] [[Environmentalism]] -I can use technology to protect the environment, but your naturalism simply hinders progress.
*[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology but too moderate outside of the economy.")
*[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology but too moderate outside of the economy.")
*[[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism]] - print("Shares opinion on technology but opposite opinion on humanity.")
*[[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism]] - print("More extreme opinion on technology and opposite opinion on humanity.")
*[[File:World_Federalism2.png]] [[World Federalism]] - print("Shares opinion on humanity but too far ahead of the social and political scale.")
*[[File:Soul.png]] [[Soulism]] - print("His [[File:transsoul.png]] scientific variant is so advanced that talking with him causes massive glitches and errors inside my brain.")
*[[File:Soul.png]] [[Soulism]] - print("His [[File:transsoul.png]] scientific variant so advanced, that talking with him causes massive glitches and errors inside my brain.")
*[[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism]] - print("Shares opinion on improving human bodies but whose methods of doing so aren't exactly ethical or scientific.")


=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Negative===
=== Transhumanism.Relationship == Negative===
*[[File: Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology.")
*[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology.")
*[[File:Natprim.png]] [[National Primitivism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and want to arrest me.")
*[[File:Natprim.png]] [[National Primitivism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and wants to arrest me.")
*[[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and uses the phased technological practice of agriculture.")
*[[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and uses the phased technological practice of agriculture.")
*[[File:Prim.png]] [[Primal Primitivism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and humanity.")
*[[File:Prim.png]] [[Primalism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and humanity.")
*[[File:Neolud.png]] [[Neoluddism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and sent me an explosive device.")
*[[File:Neolud.png]] [[Neoluddism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and sent me an explosive device.")
*[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Pol Potism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and killed intellectuals.")
*[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Pol Potism]] - print("Opposite opinion on technology and killed intellectuals.")
*[[File:Euras.png]] [[Fourth Theory]] - print("Opposite opinion on human enhancement and accuses me for being evil rather than improving human life.")
*[[File:Euras.png]] [[Fourth Theory]] - print("Opposite opinion on human enhancement and accuses me for being evil rather than improving human life.")
*[[File:Lysnoir.png]] [[Black Lilyism]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:Lysnoir.png]] [[Lys Noir]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:Anti-Humanism.png]] [[Anti-Humanism]] - print("Opposite opinion on humanity.")
*[[File:Reactcross.png]] [[Reactionaryism]] - print("Opposite opinion on modern technology and society.")
*[[File:VHMent.png]] [[Voluntary Human Extinction]] - print("Same reason as above.")
*[[File:OOTS.png]] [[Death Worship]] - print("Opposite opinion on life.")
*[[File:React.png]] [[Reactionarism]] - print("Opposite opinion on modern technology and society.")
*[[File:Necrocracy.png]] [[Necrocracy]] - print("Same as above.")
*[[File:OOTS2.png]] [[Death Worship]] - print("Opposite opinion on life.)
*[[File:Necrocracy.png]] [[Necrocracy]] [[File:Necro-ghost.png]] - print("Opposite opinion on how to maintain life.)
*[[File:Decel.png]] [[Decelerationism]] - print("Opposite opinion on modern technology and progress.")


==Further Information==
==Further Information==
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===Literature===
===Literature===


*[https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Up-Wingers:_A_Futurist_Manifesto Up-Wingers: A Futurist Manifesto]
*


===Wikipedia===
===Wikipedia===


*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism Transhumanism]
*[[w:Transhumanism|Transhumanism]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanist_politics Transhumanist politics]
*[[w:Transhumanist_politics|Transhumanist politics]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_transhumanism Outline of Transhumanism]
*[[w:Outline_of_transhumanism|Outline of Transhumanism]]


====Notable People====
===Notable People===
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein]
*[[w:Jeffrey_Epstein|Jeffrey Epstein]] [[File:Epstein.png]]
*[https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 FM-2030] [[File:Internation.png]]


===Videos===
===Videos===
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*[https://www.reddit.com/r/TranshumanistMemes/ r/TranshumanistMemes]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/TranshumanistMemes/ r/TranshumanistMemes]


=== Music ===
===Music===


* [https://youtu.be/dgCnYsDTiXU Cybercity]
* [https://youtu.be/dgCnYsDTiXU Cybercity]

===Variants===

====Christian Transhumanism====

*[https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/|Christian Transhumanist Association]


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
===Portraits===
<gallery widths="185">
<gallery widths="185">
Transhumanist.png
</gallery>

====Alternative designs====
<gallery widths="185">
✞+flag.png|'''Christian Transhumanism''' flag design
RelH+flag.png|'''Religious Transhumanism''' flag
</gallery>

===Comics and Artwork===
<gallery mode="slideshow">
ErinsHere-OffComp.png
ErinsHere-OffComp.png
ThePosadist-eStrikes.png
ThePosadist-eStrikes.png
Xl6u4z7djsw41.png|u/K-Tech2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/comments/gdh11f/family_tree_of_all_ideologies_i_managed_to/ Source]
Xl6u4z7djsw41.png|u/K-Tech2 [https://www.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/comments/gdh11f/family_tree_of_all_ideologies_i_managed_to/ Source]
Non-Quad Squad.png|By [[File:METBOL.png]] [[User:Muddy Mudkipz]]
Non-Quad Squad.png|By [[File:METBOL.png]]
Transhumanist.png|Original image
</gallery>
</gallery>

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Revision as of 01:00, 17 May 2024

This page covers transhumanism in terms of politics. For a page on transhumanism from a philosophical perspective, see the Philosophyball Page

"I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."

Transhumanism, often abbreviated to H+, is an ideology that supports the usage of emerging technologies to enhance humanity and overcome it's own physical limitations.

Due to the nature of transhumanism, it can applied alongside almost any other civic, economic or ideological system, with the few exceptions being ideologies that reject technological development or oppose transhumanism as a whole.

History

Transhumanist ideas first arouse out of the eugenics movement through certain eugenicists trying to grasp at the question of "Can human biology be improved beyond humans limits?" this first started with the 1920s. Soon after there were multiple ideas regarding the possibility of bionic implants and their use to improve human biology.

The effect science fiction had on the coming Transhumanist movement is not to be understated as it was a incredibly impactful literary genre and allowed the general population to grasp at Transhumanist ideas and peak into the future and it allowed sciene fiction authors to explore ideas of that proto-Transhumanists posed.

Beliefs

Transhumanists believe in the enhancing of the human to transcend the human. That base idea is why it is called Transhumanism. Transhumanism very much though can not be said to be Anti-Humanist or Post-Humanist as its central goal is the improving of the human condition and not the abolition or destruction of the human.

Improving of the human (condition) for Transhumanism can be done through many ways. Biological improvement is one of these as is also mechanical improvement.

Variants

Sub-Ideologies

Bio-Transhumanism

Bio-Transhumanism advocates for the goals of transhumanism to be practiced through the use of biotechnology as opposed to mechanical technology, such as gene-editing and CRISPR-based methods. Most bio-transhumanists hold the belief that biological implants are more suited for humans than mechanical implants, though some see bio-transhumanism as simply just a different method.

Schools of Thought

Religious Transhumanism

Religious Transhumanism, or f+ (faith+) is a school of thought that seeks to combine religious belief with transhumanist characters. Many different religious believers apply this differently, on the small scale of chasing traditionally religious ideas such as immortality to cults directly implementing transhuman characteristics into their belief, such as Raëlism.

Religious thinkers criticized the philosophy of transhumanism as offering no eternal truths or relationship with the divine, to which transhumanists say that is a fatal failure to understand the content of Transhumanist philosophy.

Christian Transhumanism

Christian Transhumanism (✞+ or C+) believes that intentional use of technology can empower our growth of identity as made in the image of God. It believes in progress along every dimension such as social, technological and spiritual, and that God's mission involves the transformation and renewal of humanity to defeat problems such as hunger, oppression and even death.

Many people believe that this is contradictory. They cite that any attempt to merge Transhumanism with Christianity is misguided, as transhumanism is materialistic and rejects the idea of sin.

Personality and Behaviour

Transhumanism is characterized as a stereotypical robot depicted in various medias with various examples of the behaviours:

  • Being noisy and glitchy at any time
  • Going hostile and harming other ideologies when corrupted by a virus
  • While it's a rare trope used by popular medias, Being voiced by a Synthetic Text to Speech voice program

How to Digitally Represent

Flag of Transhumanism
  1. DrawObject "Ball"
  2. if DrawObject "Ball" = true:
  3. DrawObject "H+ with Circle' on Object'ball" with.asset 'color light blue' hexadecimal:'#01A9F2'
  4. if DrawObject "H+ with Circle' on Object'ball" with.asset 'color light blue' hexadecimal:'#01A9F2' = true:
  5. DrawObject 'One Eye Visor' on Object'ball' /*/ Visor outside 'color grey' hexadecimal: #585A5A Visor inside 'color red' hexadecimal: #FF0000) /*/
  6. NonRequired.Operation: add 'visor glare'
  7. if all.lines.completed = true:
  8. print("Task Completed")
Color Name HEX RGB
Light Blue #01A9F2 1, 169, 242
Grey #585A5A 88, 90, 90
Red #FF0000 255, 0, 0


Saved Relationships

Transhumanism.Relationship == Positive

  • Technocracy - print("Shares opinion on technology. Also built my first augments.")
  • Offspring - print("Shares opinion on technology.")
    • Anarcho-Transhumanism - print("Wants technological development to be free from the state (especially anti-technological ones).")
    • Capitalist Transhumanism- print("Wants technological advancement to be a profitable enterprise. Love the cyberpunk aesthetics.")
    • CyberFeminism - print("Wants to use technology to bring about gender equality.")
    • Postgenderism - print("Wants to go further than the above and abolish gender altogether. I like your style.")
    • Libertarian Transhumanism - print("Wants to protect liberty through the use of technology.")
    • Socialist Transhumanism - print("Wants to use technology to liberate the workers.")
    • Fully Automated Gay Space Communism - print("An LGBTQ+ version of the above.")
    • Cybercommunism - print("We will continue with what Salvador Allende has started.")
    • Technogaianism - print("Who said that you can't protect the environment and support technological advancement at the same time?")

Transhumanism.Relationship == Neutral

  • Nazi Transhumanism - print("Wants to use technology to advance the nation-state. But you are too genocidal for my tastes. Also, I am not him.")
  • Archeofuturism - print("Shares opinion on technology but opposite opinion on civilization.")
  • Environmentalism -I can use technology to protect the environment, but your naturalism simply hinders progress.
  • Industrialism - print("Shares opinion on technology but too moderate outside of the economy.")
  • Post-Humanism - print("More extreme opinion on technology and opposite opinion on humanity.")
  • Soulism - print("His scientific variant is so advanced that talking with him causes massive glitches and errors inside my brain.")
  • Eugenicism - print("Shares opinion on improving human bodies but whose methods of doing so aren't exactly ethical or scientific.")

Transhumanism.Relationship == Negative

  • Anarcho-Primitivism - print("Opposite opinion on technology.")
  • National Primitivism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and wants to arrest me.")
  • Agrarianism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and uses the phased technological practice of agriculture.")
  • Primalism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and humanity.")
  • Neoluddism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and sent me an explosive device.")
  • Pol Potism - print("Opposite opinion on technology and killed intellectuals.")
  • Fourth Theory - print("Opposite opinion on human enhancement and accuses me for being evil rather than improving human life.")
  • Lys Noir - print("Same reason as above.")
  • Reactionaryism - print("Opposite opinion on modern technology and society.")
  • Death Worship - print("Opposite opinion on life.")
  • Necrocracy - print("Same as above.")

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