1. What is the core goal of the transhumanist movement?
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To return humanity to a more natural, pre-industrial state.
To use emerging technologies to radically enhance human capacities and overcome limitations like aging and death.
To focus technology exclusively on environmental protection.
To replace all humans with robots.
2. How does transhumanism generally differ from therapy or medicine?
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It is less scientific than traditional medicine.
It rejects all uses of drugs and surgery.
It aims for enhancement above the species-typical norm, rather than restoring normal function.
It is only concerned with mental health, not physical health.
3. The chapter identifies the "divorce between the world of values and the world of facts" as a key philosophical shift contributing to transhumanist thought. This shift is most associated with which historical period?
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The Roman Empire
The Middle Ages
The Cold War
The Renaissance and The Enlightenment
4. What major ethical concern is raised about the societal impact of transhumanist technologies?
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That they will make people too happy.
That they could exacerbate social inequality, creating a divide between the "enhanced" and the "unenhanced."
That they are not developing fast enough.
That they will require too much electricity.
5. The chapter interprets the transhumanist desire for god-like attributes (immortality, omniscience) as a modern manifestation of what?
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A healthy expression of scientific curiosity.
The fulfillment of the divine plan.
A sign of cultural maturity and progress.
The ancient temptation to achieve divinity by one's own efforts, without God.