James Hughes: It’s Understandable that Many People Distrust & Transhumanism & Have Anxiety about Technological Change
In “2030: Beyond the Film” Director Johnny Boston discusses the futurist FM-2030, the Coronavirus Pandemic, and a range of urgent issues in the medical, philosophical, longevity & futurist space with leading voices.
In this episode, Boston talks with sociologist and bioethicist James Hughes. Topics of discussion include the many political strands of Transhumanism, the concepts of progress underpinning most futurists’ worldviews, privacy in the future and more. In this excerpt Hughes explains why many people today, especially those from less privileged backgrounds, have a rational distrust towards Transhumanistic ideas.
About James Hughes: (via Wikipedia): Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant director of research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Before graduate school he was temporarily ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1984 while working as a volunteer in Sri Lanka for the development organization Sarvodaya from 1983 to 1985.
Hughes served as executive director of the World Transhumanist Association from 2004 to 2006 and currently serves as executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, which he founded with Nick Bostrom. He also produces the syndicated weekly public affairs radio talk show program Changesurfer Radio and contributed to the Cyborg Democracy blog. Hughes’ book Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future was published by Westview Press in November 2004.
Rejecting bioconservatism and libertarian transhumanism, Hughes argues for democratic transhumanism, a radical form of techno-progressivism that asserts that the best possible “posthuman future” is achievable only by ensuring that human enhancement technologies are safe, made available to everyone, and respect the right of individuals to control their own bodies.
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A centralized-government based on deconstructing the idea of a human. Of course…on one of their last videos they blame logic on "white-men". A Technocracy of a centralized-government where everyone will controlled on how much they eat, drink and where they live.
Everyone will probably become poor because of Agenda 2030. It is communism at worst and a Technocracy at best. Plus, he starts calling the conservatives "Nazis". Do you guys really trust these people? They want control of EVERYTHING. Now they want to deconstruct…a human-being.
These are all necessary questions.
I support Transhumanism. Transhumanism of Jamaica
you should first understand why illnesses exist and what is a therapy before thinking that transhumanism is an option
(mind logic works according rules of finite world 1 + 1 = 2 leading to separation, thus ultimately wars, whereas only heart can unite 'calculating' 1+1=1 without any logic. In order to fall in love we first need to lose our mind.
According love being ill, having limitations, looking ugly is a good thing.
And you have no idea of that.
The aim of tranhumanism is very different from what you think about. It is a matter of agenda, the brave new world agenda.
the more grief digs our beings, the more joy the heart can contain
A centralized-government based on deconstructing the idea of a human. Of course…on one of their last videos they blame logic on "white-men".
A Technocracy of a centralized-government where everyone will controlled on how much they eat, drink and where they live.
Everyone will probably become poor because of Agenda 2030. It is communism at worst and a Technocracy at best. Plus, he starts calling the conservatives "Nazis".
Do you guys really trust these people? They want control of EVERYTHING. Now they want to deconstruct…a human-being.