Defining "Posthuman"
I shall define a posthuman as a being that has at least one posthuman capacity. By a posthuman capacity, I mean a general central capacity greatly exceeding the maximum attainable by any current human being without recourse to new technological means. I will use general central capacity to refer to the following:
- healthspan – the capacity to remain fully healthy, active, and productive, both mentally and physically
- cognition – general intellectual capacities, such as memory, deductive and analogical reasoning, and attention, as well as special faculties such as the capacity to understand and appreciate music, humor, eroticism, narration, spirituality, mathematics, etc.
- emotion – the capacity to enjoy life and to respond with appropriate affect to life situations and other people.
Notes:
From Nick Bostrom's "Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up"
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