The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself-not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity.
Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.
One question for transhumanism is indeed whether this transcendence will apply to the whole human species or rather for only a select part of it.
Huxley gave some indication of how this human self-transcendence might occur: humanity would become "Managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution ..." As the first epigraph to this Part makes clear, Julian Huxley was a proponent of eugenics.
Human beings are the carriers of universal intelligence and human technology is the substratum by which intelligence will be infinitely expanded and universalized.
According to Harari, the 4-IR will have two main consequences: human bodies and minds will be replaced by robots and AI, while human brains become hackable with nanorobotic brain-cloud interfaces, AI, and biometric surveillance technologies.
A neuralnanorobotically enabled human B/CI might serve as a personalized conduit, allowing persons to obtain direct, instantaneous access to virtually any facet of cumulative human knowledge.
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