[laughter] so our panel title is bioethics and the transhuman future. and in an e-mail to me, brad wilson actually also threw into the subject heading the word posthuman future just for good measure. so the question i'm going to ask today is what do posthuman and transhuman mean. and i'm going to argue that they have no meaning. there's no condition that could reasonably be described in either of these ways. all the conditions that receive these names are either, a, impossibilities; b, deficient human conditions; or, c, amplifications but not changes of human nature as it already exists. everything in category c is, i think, intrinsically permissible. but some of it might be impermissible because of its side effects, and much of it is impermissible in approach; that is, the ways it's reasonable to expect that we could achieve instances of c are themselves often morally impermissible. and that, i'll suggest at the end, tells us something familiar about our likely future. the terms posthuman and transhuman are thought to refer to a kind of being descended

[laughing] so our panel title is bioethics and the transhuman future. in an e-mail to me brad wilsonls also threw in the subject heading the word posthuman future just for good measure. the question i'm going to ask today is what you posthuman and transhuman mean? i'm going to argue that they have no meaning. there is no condition that could really be described in either oe these ways. all the conditions that we see these names are either a comma impossibilities, b, deficient human conditions foresee amplifications but not changes of human nature. everything in category c is i think intrinsically permissible but some of it might be impermissible because of its side effects and much of it is impermissible in approach. that is, the ways regional to expect we could receive instances of c are often think of more impermissible. and that i will suggest at the end tells us something familiar likely future. the terms posthuman and transhuman i thought refer to a kind of being descended from or perhaps caused by or created by human beings but no longer of that s

i'm not surprised and not disappointed that a group of intellectuals would come at the possible transhumanure primarily through artificial intelligence and brain machine interactions that an academic would remind us that using one greek source, that we are rational animals. after all, but there's an older greek source that use call human beings the mortals. and i was, this is really for chris buffer anybody else. you rather quickly set aside immortality as one of the dreams that's impossible. and that may very well be right, though there are people at work and in this business who think seriously the opposite. i suppose someone will have to wait and see. but it seems to me that, it seems to me that rather significant life extension, short of immortality is very likely in the offing, given the already remarkable results that have been achieved by locating various kinds of genes that control the species specific lifespan. and could we talk about the implications for what it means to be human for a rather large extension of life span, where the relations among the generations would be differe