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 * 1) What is the purpose of Transhumanism and the pros and cons of the movement on society?
 * 2) Transhumanism, medical technology and slippery slopes
 * 3) MJ Edwards and SD Seward, Journal of Medical Ethics
 * 4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2563415/
 * 5) I accessed this website on may 24, 2014
 * 6) Speaker- authors, Occasion- to show how the movement is bad by eliminating all biological sources from human, Audience- Transhumanists, Purpose- To show how this movement may be good yet too much technology is bad subject- Transhumanism, and Tone- Critical.
 * 7) The article is about the implications of Transhumanism. Transhumanism may be bad de to raising human limits.
 * 8) The authors purpose is to show the implications of Transhumanism
 * 9) I agree to a large degree because making everyone technologically superior just makes competition stiffer and the lack of resoucres to occur much sooner than expected
 * Advocates of transhumanism argue that recruitment or deployment of these various types of technology can produce people who are intelligent and immortal, but who are not members of the species //Homo sapiens//
 * According to the extreme transhumanism program, technology can be used to vastly enhance a person's intelligence; to tailor their appearance to what they desire; to lengthen their lifespan, perhaps to immortality; and to reduce vastly their vulnerability to harm.
 * One possible consequence feared by some commentators is that, in effect, transhumanism will lead to the existence of two distinct types of being, the human and the posthuman. The human may be incapable of breeding with the posthuman and will be seen as having a much lower moral standing
 * critics may argue that transhumanism will increase inequalities between the rich and the poor. The rich can afford to make use of transhumanism, but the poor will not be able to