Transhumanism

Distinguishing this from Extropian attitudes is messy...

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100092/

http://www.markalanwalker.com/what.htm

http://www.fm2030.com/index2.cfm

Debate between Max More and Paulina Borsook - But if a rational use of technology and science can remove us from our biological platform and bring about - among other things - eternal life, would we lose in the process what it means to be human?

Many ideas of the Russian cosmists (Cosmism) were later developed by those in the transhumanist movement.

• Nikolai Fedorov (1827-1903) advocated radical life extension, physical immortality and even resurrection of the dead, using scientific methods.