What is Transhumanism and Human Enhancement?

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Transhumanism is the filosophical and ideological movement that promotes a vision of human body in terms of enhancement phisical and cognitive abilities to maximise happiness.

The first person that introduce Transhumanism is Aldous Huxley, english genetist and molecular biologist, in his publicated article “The world, the Flesh and the Devil” in 1929, who spoke about space colonization and cybernetic implant and cognitive enhancement.

The directly field of application of Transhumanist teory and concept is called “Human Enhancement”, the field of science that use science and engineering to teorize, design and implemented technology in human body, to amplify or modify biological funcioning that are desiderable, as muscle growt, reduction of body fat, better vision, better cognitive functions and intellectual and social performance.

Human enhancement differs from “Human augmentation” regard the invasivity of treatment, tha in Human augmentatio is limited in wearing device or technological tissue

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