Julian Huxley
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synth
Huxley in 1922
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Julian, his younger brother Aldous, and father Leonard
T. H. Huxley with Julian in 1893
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Transhumanism
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Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that advocates using existing, emerging, and speculative technologies to enhance humans beyond current natural limitations, particularly by exten
Julian Huxley
…Huxley won the second Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for We Europeans in 1937. In 1957, Huxley popularized the term transhumanism for the view that humans should better themselves through science and technology, possibly including eugenics, but also, importantly, the improvement…
Ray Kurzweil believes that a countdown to when "human life will be irreversibly transformed" can be made through plotting major world events on a graph.
In the U.S., the Amish are a religious group known for their avoidance of certain modern technologies. Transhumanists draw a parallel by arguing that in the near future there will probably be "humanish", people who choose to "stay human" by not adopting human enhancement technologies. They believe their choice must be respected and protected.
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