Transhumanism (abbreviated as
H+ or
h+) is an international and
intellectual movement that aims to transform the
human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly
enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of
emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the
ethics of using such technologies. The most common thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of
posthuman beings.