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Transhumanism and the Enhancement of Nature
THESIS by SOPHIA DE JONG - Graphic Design - Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague - 2019

ABSTRACT

In this age of advancing technology we are becoming increasingly impatient with what the body’s nature has given us with our frailties and limitations. While our mind soars, our bodies seem to frozen in time, but what if we can build a better body using technology to fix this human form and then improve upon it? Make it stronger, faster, smarter and create the human of the future. But what for? Transhumanists, or those who are loyal to the ideals of the improvement of the human species through enhancement as a moral obligation, believe they are the suppliers of the torch that will take us to an enlightened future. Transhumanism wants to dominate and modify the human nature, and take control of its human evolution to turn it into a post-human society, making the course of nature’s future a malleable property. In the present moment humankind has the power to modify its environment and it’s own nature, this that before were just mere wishes or pure imagination; Transhumanist believe in the expression of a better (enhanced) humankind. This new possibilities of intervention have brought to the light the long debate of the relationship of the between humanity and nature and raise new questions about the consequences of this possible intervention. Throughout this work, I will question the implementation of transhumanist arguments and their philosophical ethics, counterposing them with the the questions of what is the notion of nature. The eager of humankind to have control of nature. Their ideology is based on new technological developments have to be discussed and analysed in depth, taking into account both the benefits and possible harms of its implications, as well as the consequences on the shift of the definition of human nature.