Biohumanism Lecture

I felt that this lecture was something that everyone in our class should have experienced. James Hughes raised important questions regarding our future in transhumanistic ways including drugs that will make us healthier, live longer and be happier overall. Some people, however, feel that such processes would dehumanize us and it would be very dangerous to have certain groups of people being stronger mentally and physically because of certain drugs you could take. Hughes seemed to believe that there was no limit to what we could do with these things. Our brain power could be set free without limitations, the use of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology would be available to millions. Overall I felt that Hughes raised many good points. This is definitely something we are going to have to deal with in the upcoming years. While his presentation was not the most unbiased piece of work in the world, it was something that I felt transcended all age groups and made it easy for me to understand. The biggest point Hughes brought up, however, is that these processes should not be mandatory or anything like that, but that they should be made available to us if we want them.