![]() ![]() This is personal immortality through the transferal of the individual human mind into a computer program, which may then be indefinitely preserved and duplicated through a succession of different bodies. Sometimes the emphasis is on enhanced biology sometimes on the supplementation or replacement of the body by technology.Īltered Carbon plays with the ingredients of one transhumanist vision in particular. ![]() ![]() While there is no single template for transhumanism’s imagined future, there are a number of recurring motifs, such as enhanced cognition, improved bodies and extended lifespans. Transhumanists believe that our species will soon undergo a technological evolution into a new and superior form. The hopes and dreams of the technological movement known as “transhumanism” have been brought into the media spotlight thanks to Netflix’s new science fiction series, Altered Carbon (based on Richard Morgan’s 2001 novel). ![]()
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