Transhuman, posthuman and complex humanness in the 21st century

Abstract

Summary Bodies are hacked to exceed natural physical human limits, which is a sine qua non of the world view of transhumanism. According to transhumanists, death is unnecessary, and medicine undermines radically evolving humans beyond unrealized levels. To body hackers and biohackers, there is no need to wait to explore the innovations that conventional medicine acts exiguously in combatting. The goal of the transhumanist movement is to go beyond current human, to become posthuman. Unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications are inflection points of a new world. I propose looking at ethics from a calculus of iterative complexity to understand a dynamic scientific movement that is unchartered. Evolution of the human of the 21st century is at the mercy of novel, radical technology. Contested arguments around superwellness and superlongevity are certain to follow the revolution. The cascading effects of posthumanism and transhumanism on the body will unavoidably impinge on us all.