The Big Questions: What comes after Homo sapiens?
N ew Scientist handles eight of the most profound difficulties looked by science – from the real world and cognizance, to choice and passing, in The Big Questions unique highlights. IN 1957, scholar Julian Huxley, sibling of Aldous, instituted the expression "transhumanism" for the possibility that we should utilize innovation to rise above the impediments of our bodies and minds. Huxley accepted that "the human species can, on the off chance that it wishes, rise above itself" through "transformative humanism". Practically 50 years on, transhumanism has turned into a genuine probability, indicating the way an unfathomably otherworldly future that would have been unbelievable even to Huxley. The decisions we make today are choosing a response to the inquiry "What comes after human civilisation?" In the pre-Enlightenment world view, people were the zenith of creation, made in God's picture to harp on an Earth that was the focal point of ...