Transhumanism

[Night FM]

What are your thoughts on this? I was thinking of reading some books about transhumanism and sharing my thoughts. I'm personally interested in meditation and expanding the limits of the human mind and consciousness. Some transhumanist ideas, though, strike me as controversial - such as the concept of "uploading one's mind" to a computer or finding ways to "cheat death" with technology. (These would naturally run into debates about consciousness and the problem of associating human consciousness solely with the rational mind, which I believe is an outdated concept per evolutionary biology to begin with, since the human brain contains parts which govern sub-rational behaviors, such as those in humans and animals which govern instinct).

One of the books I was interested in reading mentioned that these ideas originated in occult beliefs such as those of Rosicrucianism and have essentially adapted their ideas to modern or future technology.

[swansont]

I think you need to more narrowly define this, since prosthetics and hip replacement surgery arguably fall into the category of transhumanism.