Stories
the narratives it tells itself
A biologist coined it, and meant something gentler.
Julian Huxley proposed transhumanism in 1957 for the species consciously transcending itself — through education and culture as much as anything. The word was later picked up for a programme he did not propose.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe Transhumanist Declaration (1998, revised 2009)
Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014)
Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Wine (1957)