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Transcending human frailties with technological enhancements and replacements: Transhumanist perspective in nursing and healthcare
Author(s) -
Locsin Rozzano C.,
Pepito Joseph Andrew,
Juntasopeepun Phanida,
Constantino Rose E.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1111/nin.12391
Subject(s) - sophistication , transcendence (philosophy) , summit , perspective (graphical) , emerging technologies , engineering ethics , posthuman , sociology , psychology , computer science , epistemology , social science , engineering , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physical geography , geography
As human beings age, they become weak, fragile, and feeble. It is a slowly progressing yet complex syndrome in which old age or some disabilities are not prerequisites; neither does loss of human parts lead to frailty among the physically fit older persons. This paper aims to describe the influences of transhumanist perspectives on human‐technology enhancements and replacements in the transcendence of human frailties, including those of older persons, in which technology is projected to deliver solutions toward transcending these frailties. Through technologies including genetic screening and other technological manipulations, intelligent machines and augmented humans improve, maintain, and remedy human‐linked susceptibilities. Furthermore, other technologies replace parts fabricated through inorganic‐mechanical processes such as 3D‐printing. Advancing technologies are reaching the summit of technological sophistication contributing to the transhumanist views of being human in a technological world. Technologies enhance the transcendence of human frailties as essential expressions of the symbiosis between human beings and technology in a transcendental world.