The Surprising Convergence of Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Issue: • Author/s: Manfredi Negro
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology
The topic of the relationship between transhumanism and posthumanism is one that has received very little attention over the years. These two quickly growing schools of thought display a rather odd combination of similarities and differences that can make them appear both as completely independent and unrelated, or as heavily connected variations of the same idea. However, only a few attempts have been made at examining how they really correlate to each other. As such, in this article I will attempt to provide an analysis of both transhumanism and posthumanism,…