Felicia Nimue Ackerman, a monthly contributor, is a professor of philosophy at Brown University. Does the word "transhumanism" mean anything to you? About half the people in my tiny unscientific ...

Do you remember The Six Million Dollar Man? It was a '70s American science-fiction television series based on the novel Cyborg, about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin. After being seriously ...

Why the church should resist technologies that aim to liberate us from ordinary, embodied life. Amid the pop-culture detritus of my childhood, one unforgettable fragment is the TV series The Six ...

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what it feels like to wander into a Salvador Dali painting, try attending a conference of transhumanists. Case in point: the symposium "Human Enhancement Technologies and Human ...

Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the enhancement of the human condition by developing sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition. It also predicts the ...

What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human -- but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that.