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Its a wild request to ask a nation to consider electing you as their president, especially when youre a transhumanistsomeone who advocates for using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species. But Im doing it.

Last October, I declared my 2016 US candidacy under the newly formed Transhumanist Party, which I founded, and promised my community of techno-optimists Id do everything I could to use my campaign as a way to speed up the arrival of robotic hearts, brain implants, artificial limbs, exoskeleton suits, and indefinite lifespansall of which are just a small part of the radical science transhumanists aim to make a standard part of peoples lives.

The Transhumanist Party may seem fringe to some, but its not. Its mainly made up of scientists, engineers, futurists, and people who love technology. And while we dont have a formal paying membership process, my officers and I estimatebased on social media, event turnouts, and donationswe now have about 25,000 supporters in the US. We also have approximately 40 volunteers and more signing up every week. Globally, there are now almost 25 Transhumanist Parties on five different continents, each with its own rules that it determines best within its national framework.

My presidential campaign has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Take this morning for example. I woke up to my iPad beeping relentlessly with inbound messagesdozens of emails, Facebook posts, and tweets asking my policies on everything from artificial wombs, to a proposed moratorium on AI research, to the Baltimore riots. After brewing coffee, I answered as many requests as I could.

Later, I began the tedious business of negotiating a reality TV contract on my campaign. After taking my 4-year-old daughter to preschool, I returned to my desk and typed up a blog post supporting Chinese scientists editing the genome, then put together my slideshow for an upcoming speech in Vancouver, then worked with a designer on the Transhumanist Partys latest bumper sticker. Finally, I spent a half-hour checking out bus companies for my campaigns summer bus tour, scheduled to start this July on the West Coast.

By noon I was almost caught up on most urgent campaign matters and starting to look forward to my mid-day jog when the flow was broken by one my communications managers asking how I planned to answer inquiring press on 3D-printed guns. This is a sticky issue.

Generally, transhumanists love anything 3D-printedespecially when it concerns human organs and bionicsbut the question at hand was whether manufacturing a lethal weapon is going too far, especially when anyone could do it by buying a 3D-printer off Ebay for a under $2000?

Guns play an integral part in thousands of accidental deaths, murders, and armed robberies every year in America, so the ability to quickly, cheaply, and anonymously make them in your home or even in your car is highly contentious. I generally advocate for giving people nearly all liberties, but I had no idea how to answer this question, and neither did any of my staff. An advisor said we should check out what the US Constitutions Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) said about 3D-printers. We laughed, thinking it ridiculous to try governing a country with a 226-year old document in the transhumanist age.

People ask me all the timesince they know Im not going to win the presidency (third party candidates never win)if Im enjoying the campaign. Ive never thought about it like that.

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Why Im Running for President As the Transhumanist Candidate

The founding of the Transhumanist Party of the United States, the intensifying of the U.S. BRAIN-Initiative and the start of Google's project "Ending death" were important milestones in the year 2014, and potential further steps towards "transhumanist" politics. The most significant development was that the radical international technology community became a concrete political force, not by chance starting its global political initiative in the U.S. According to political scientist and sociologist Roland Benedikter, research scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, "transhumanist" politics has momentous growth potential but with uncertain outcomes. The coming years will probably see a dialogue between humanism and transhumanism in - and about - most crucial fields of human endeavor, with strong political implications that will challenge, and could change the traditional concepts, identities and strategies of Left and Right.

Roland Benedikter is the co-author of two Pentagon and U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff White Papers concerning the future of Neurotechnology and the Ethics of Neurowarfare (2013 and 2014), several books about global strategic matters (two of those on Xi Jinping's China) and of the upcoming book Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Impacting Human Futures (in cooperation with James Giordano, Springer New York) which will be published in 2015. He has co-authored the commentary "Neuroculture: How to keep ethical pace with the current 'deep' transformations through neurotechnology? for "Leftist Review" with James Giordano in March 2012. Katja Siepmann and Annabella McIntosh conducted the interview.

In the book you co-authored with Pentagon-advisor and Georgetown-neuroscientist and neuroethicist James Giordano "Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Impacting Human Futures" you state that these two fields at the interface between science and politics might lead to bigger changes in the coming years than either conventional politics or science. The reason: Technology is becoming an increasingly more powerful political and social force - not only sectorially or nationally, but globally.

Roland Benedikter: In recent years technology has indeed emerged as a concrete social and political force. 2014 has seen a noticeable intensification of that trend. The traditional political players are poorly prepared for it. What, for example, nowadays takes place in just one year at the interface between the human brain and technology, until recently required a decade. It is an exponential development. The mechanization of society and humanity is occurring within many disciplines- for example, in the form of neurotechnology, which is increasingly used for medical and both dual-use and direct military purposes. But there are other fields too. From neuroeconomics to, neuroaesthetics, neurosprituality, neurosociology and even neuropolitics, the "neuro"-prefix is becoming omnipresent in the understanding and meaning of our time and civilization - and with regard to its self-ascribed identity.

What exactly is going on?

Roland Benedikter: Supporters of "human enhancement"[1], which encompasses scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians and transcends language, cultural and ideological barriers, advocate mechanization of the human body in general and the broad "culturalization" of brain-machine interfaces in particular as the progressive, transformative path for humanity in the 21st century. By playing a consulting role in the "high spheres" of politics, science, and management, representatives of the transhumanist movement (including the World Transhumanist Association), which was initiated in the 1980s, are promoting the fusion of humans and computers. Among other things, they recommend the broad use of implants to enhance cognitive abilities, neural engineering to expand human consciousness and the cyborgization of the body and its tissues and systems in order to increase resilience, flourishing and lifespan.

Sounds gruesome at first. What is the idea behind all this?

Roland Benedikter: The name "transhumanism" is the basic concept that tells it all. Its followers want to go beyond the present human condition. At its core it means to overcome the "natural" limitations inherent in human existence, which is to be born, live relatively short, half-conscious lives, and then die. The supporters of "human enhancement" and "transhumanism" intend to break through these current physical and cognitive (and perhaps even spiritual) barriers. In order to do that, they will pursue biotechnological upgrades to the human body and thus, conceivably, try to eliminate the negative effects of ageing and eventually (at least in their aspiration) even death.

You state (in a scientifically "neutral" sense) that the first breakthrough of this development could now be imminent, but there will also be inescapable associated ethical problems?

Roland Benedikter: Possibly. Those who view the future human being as a technoid being, if not as a body fully integrated into technology - as seem to do, for example, Google's chief engineer Ray Kurzweil or the Oxford professor of philosophy Nick Bostrom, who is the head of the "Future of Humanity Institute" at the faculty of philosophy and the Oxford James Martin 21st Century School -- regard the mid of the century as a probable date for reaching the "singularity." That's the moment when artificial intelligence allegedly surpasses that of human intelligence and becomes in some way "self-conscious", as these thinkers expect.[2] Kurzweil has recently even referred to the year 2029 as the date when technology could reach a level of self-conscious "intelligence".[3] If that happens, even on an approximate basis, it will without doubt affect virtually everything, even though it will likely not occur in as spectacular ways as predicted.

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The large prize is being offered by businessman, Dmitry Kaminskiy He hopes money will help create a new group of 'supercenternarians' Jeanne Calment holds the record of oldest person, dying aged 122.5 He has made a $1m bet with Dr Alex Zhavoronkov on who will die first

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Published: 17:02 EST, 10 April 2015 | Updated: 19:32 EST, 12 April 2015

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Dmitry Kaminskiy is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'

A Moldovan multi-millionaire whose dream it is to live forever has promised to give $1 million to the first person to reach the age of 123.

Dmitry Kaminskiy, a senior partner of Hong Kong-based firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'.

He says research into stem cells, tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine will allow people to live beyond 120 - an age that has been quoted as the 'real absolute limit to human lifespan'.

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Transhumanist Party - Transcending human limitations
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The Transhumanist (Original Mix)
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The large prize is being offered by businessman, Dmitry Kaminskiy He hopes money will help create a new group of 'supercenternarians' Jeanne Calment holds the record of oldest person, dying aged 122.5 He has made a $1m bet with Dr Alex Zhavoronkov on who will die first

By Zoltan Istvan For Dailymail.com

Published: 17:02 EST, 10 April 2015 | Updated: 19:23 EST, 10 April 2015

Dmitry Kaminskiy is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'

A Russian multi-millionaire whose dream it is to live forever has promised to give $1 million to the first person to reach the age of 123.

Dmitry Kaminskiy, a senior partner of Hong Kong-based firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'.

He says research into stem cells, tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine will allow people to live beyond 120 - an age that has been quoted as the 'real absolute limit to human lifespan'.

'We live in the most exciting era of human development when technologies become exponential and transformative,' Kaminskiy told DailyMail.com.

'They may not realise it, but some of the supercentenarians alive today may see the dawn of the next century if they live long enough for these transformative technologies to develop.

'I hope that my prize will help some of them desire longer lifespans and make their approaches to living longer a little more competitive.'

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Normal day in transhumanist life
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What does transhumanist mean?
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Transhumanist politics is a political ideology that aims to improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies.[1] Transhumanists tend to support life extension, human enhancement technologies, space exploration and space settlement, human rights, sustainable development, technogaianism, and raising the world's living standard through technology, science, education, decentralization, and just governance.[2][3]

According to James Hughes, transhumanist politics is part of a three-hundred-year-long history that began in the Age of Enlightenment when people began to advocate for democracy and individual rights and use science and technology instead of magic and superstition.[4][5] In 2012, Giuseppe Vatinno was the first politician in the world to explicitly identify as a transhumanist.[6][7] In 2012 the Longevity Party, a movement described as "100% transhumanist" by cofounder Maria Konovalenko, began to organize in Russia for building a balloted political party.[8][9][10] In 2013, io9 editor Annalee Newitz suggested building a Space Party devoted to developing space settlements and defending humanity against existential threats.[11] During the 2014 U.S. midterm elections, Gabriel Rothblatt was the first transhumanist to run for the U.S. Congress.[12]

Transhumanists believe in transforming the human condition by developing and making available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[13] According to a 2006 study by the European Parliament, transhumanism is the political expression of the ideology that technology should be used to enhance human abilities.[1]

The political philosophies that tend to be supportive of transhumanism, according to Amon Twyman from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, are social-futurism; techno-progressivism; techno-libertarianism; and anarcho-transhumanism.[14][unreliable source?] These philosophies collectively make up political transhumanism.[14]Democratic transhumanists, also known as technoprogressives,[15][16] tend to be in disagreement with libertarian transhumanists over the role of government in society, but both agree that technology can enhance the human condition and laws should not prevent technology-based human progress.[17] Democratic transhumanists support equal access to human enhancement technologies in order to promote social equality and to prevent technologies from furthering the divide among the socioeconomic classes.[18] Alternatively, libertarian transhumanists reject government healthcare policies that offer human enhancement technologies because they fear that any state intervention will steer or limit their choices.[19][20][17]

Riccardo Campa wrote that transhumanism can be coupled with many different political, philosophical, and religious views, and this diversity can be an asset as long as transhumanists do not give priority to their existing affiliations over their membership with organized transhumanism.[21]

In October 2014, Zoltan Istvan announced his plan to form the Transhumanist Party and run for President of the United States during the 2016 presidential election.[22] During December 2014, United Kingdom and European Union transhumanist parties began to organize, and on January 2015 the UK Transhumanist Party released the Transhumanist Party Manifesto.[23][24][unreliable source?][25]

The Transhumanist Party is a political party movement[neutrality is disputed] that is centered on the philosophy of transhumanism, including the political focus of science, medicine, and technology to enhance the human species.[26][22] Amon Twyman wrote that the strength of developing transhumanist parties lies in the grassroots actions of the thousands of transhumanist who can be organized and politically mobilized for a common goal, and the goal is not to replace technological progress with politics but to use politics to ensure technology is used to improve the world.[23][unreliable source?] In an interview with Vice magazine, David Wood stated that the UK Transhumanist Party is progressive both socially and economically and leans towards decentralization.[25]

Zoltan Istvan has announced he is running for the United States presidential election of 2016 under the Transhumanist Party.

Transhumanist writer and former University of Texas professor, John G. Messerly, wrote that he supports Istvan's entrance into politics because both the social and political environment must be supportive of transhumanism in order for humans to evolve with greater intelligence and morality.[27]

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EUCACH: Melanie Vritschan homage to Dr Rauni Kilde, whistleblower against Transhumanist Agenda
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