Talk:Transhuman

When did "Trans-Human" first make appearance?
1947:

New Year's Dawn, 1947... A poem by Robinson Jeffers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.127.200 (talk) 18:53, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

1951:

"In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans-humanity at the ultimate heart of things." -- [http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2287&C=2182 Teilhard, Paris, 27 April, 1950. Almanach des Sciences, 1951.]

1949:

"Liberty: that is to say, the chance offered to every man (by removing obstacles and placing the appropriate means at his disposal) of ‘trans-humanizing’ himself by developing his potentialities to the fullest extent." -- [http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2287&C=2177 Unpublished. Paris. 2 February 1949.]

see also: Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism

This is just out of one book I read of Teilhards, I am sure he used the word in others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LionKimbro (talk • contribs) 20:59, 11 January 2010 (UTC)


 * de Chardin used the words “trans-humanity” and “trans-humanizing” but did he ever actually used the word “transhuman” in any of his writings? --Loremaster (talk) 02:54, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Explain Reverts
Loremaster, please explain why you are reverting the page.

I have pointed to clear evidence that "transhuman" was used by both Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley in 1950 & 1957. The use of the word "transhuman" in both cases is clearly in line with what is talked about later on.

Please explain why you are reverting my good faith edits, without any explanation beyond "no original research," contra Wikipedia policy.

LionKimbro (talk)


 * My apologies. Due to some weird glitch, I was unable to see some of the content of you added so I reverted it. That being said, some of your edits are a bit awkward so I'll work on polishing them. --Loremaster (talk) 02:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * On the other hand, de Chardin used the words “trans-humanity” and “trans-humanizing” but did he ever actually used the word “transhuman” in any of his writings? --Loremaster (talk) 02:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

What in the hell happened to this article? Where did all the stuff go that explained what the possible components of transhumans are? -- Sweet Nightmares  (awaken)  19:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you are talking about but that content was probably removed because it didn't come from a reliable source. Regardless of how obvious something might be to us, we cannot add original research in the article. --Loremaster (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Etymological dispute
For many years, there are have been minor disputes about the etymology of the word “transhuman”. The Transhumanist FAQ of the World Transhumanist Association has always argued it goes back to FM-2030 (1966). However, some people dispute this by arguing that it actually goes back to Julian Huxley (1957) or even Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1949). However, although Huxley and de Chardin used terms like “transhumanism”, “transhumanity” and “transhumanizing”, we need to confirm that they excplicitly used the word “transhuman”. So my question is: Does coining and defining the words “transhumanism”, “transhumanity” and “transhumanizing” automatically mean that one has coined and defined the word “transhuman” even when one have never explicitly used that word? --Loremaster (talk) 03:45, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Kind of an in-depth question, but I'd have to go with "not automatically, but possibly". In this case... not necessarily?  I think you sum it up there: we need to confirm that they excplicitly used the word “transhuman”. Human.v2.0 (talk) 01:19, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

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