Commentary
​Transhumanism is a futuristic social movement that advocates harnessing the transformative powers of computer science, biotechnology, and medicine to create a “post-human species.”
Want to be immortal, merge your brain with AI intelligence, attain the eyesight of a hawk, grow a prehensile tail, or attain the physical capacities of comic book superheroes? Transhumanism promises adherents that, come “the Singularity”—an eschatological point in time when technological advances make the movement unstoppable—their lives will only be limited by the boundaries of imagination.
This goal is made clear in the “Transhumanist Bill of Rights.” Article X states in part, “Sentient entities agree to uphold morphological freedom—the right to do with one’s physical attributes or intelligence whatever one wants so long as it does not harm others.”…