" Transhumanist " Topic

"…One of the greatest misunderstandings about transhumanism is that it is merely high-tech, technophilia, genetic engineering, bionics, cyberpunk, virtual reality, a technological Singularity, or a combination thereof. It is not.

Simply put, transhumanism is the process of consciously improving oneself, or a group of people, beyond the limitations of "baseline" humanity, and thereby create a new, post-human species. Without that conscious desire to exceed humanity, one is neither a transhumanist nor a transhuman. One can be a technophile, or a cyborg, or genetically enhanced, but unless that is coupled with the goal of moving beyond "humanity", it is not transhumanism. There is a reason that a common transhumanist symbol in the early days was >H.

Now, transhumanism certainly can involve all those things I mentioned above. Space exploration, nanotechnology and post-scarcity economies, cybernetics, virtual realities, cryonics, artificial intelligence; all these things and more are staples of transhumanist interests and projections. But they do not, in and of themselves, make something transhumanist. For that, one must have the desire to create (or become) a new, post-human species.

In game terms, as well as in fiction, the ripest field for exploring this theme is the conflict between baseline humans and the transhumans (and/or posthumans). Conflicts between different transhuman factions are also possible, maybe based on their attitudes towards the baseline humans. (And yes, there are definitely "factions" among contemporary transhumanists along such lines, as well as how transhumanist-potential technologies should be distributed or made accessible.)…"
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Are you one of them?

Amicalement
Armand

Who is Alex Jones?

He's a conspiracy chap with a bullhorn.

Alex Jones on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones

The idea of human culture continuing on past… Humanity Mark I… of Fred Astaire movies being shown on other worlds to eyes that have never seen a flesh & blood original model… I always thought that was intriguing. That we might eventually make it to other worlds, but not in our current form.
Eclipse Phase is a good RPG for dabbling in such thoughts… though it kind of left me horrified snd depressed for a bit.

To be fair though, Alex Jones was one of the first to break the Benghazi scandal and is currently only one of a few media sources covering the Bilderberg Summit. The Giant Wasp people are just an entertaining bonus.

My head hurts.

If you want to improve yourself, don't become Borg – just go on a diet and read more!
Rod (Fat) Robertson

Did we pick this just for the butt in a red thong?

Of course not.

Amicalement
Armand

"Transhumanism" is an interestign topic and of course the starting point for speculations, specifically as to how the "transhumans" organize themselves and their society and of course their relations with the original humans.

Nor is it necessary that the two be in conflict. In fact the two might form a very amicable and friendly relationship. I refer both to the individual and the societal level. Of course around here we are mostly wargamers and mostly wargamers can't conceive of anything except on an adversarial and destructive basis.

Ont he other hand the fantasy people seem to have populated their environments with several transhumanist races which might be interepreted as different beings or paths of evolution, or space aliens, but they also populate it with enough "Half XXXXXX's" to obviously make procreation across the species possible. Is this simply genetic variance or miscegination?

Indeed once one gets into the internals, I mean the REAL internals, that is the minds of the humans and transhumans one might find a wide range of attitudes and predispositions all of them dependent on an individual case. Thus, the transhumans, in spite of altered form and appearance (which is only the obvious superficial) might be as varied and phenomenal as regular humans.