Since the start of this decade, experimental technology and DIY health fixes have become popular in Silicon Valley, with NASA employee Josiah Zayner being the talk of the town after he live-streamed and injected himself with DNA using the gene-editing technology CRISPR. Now an increasing number of Russians are becoming interested in biohacking, a global movement supporting transhumanism, whose followers wish to “upgrade” their bodies.
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What is Biohacking? A DIY Biology Biohacking is a term that can cover a huge range of activities, from performing science experiments on yeast or other organisms to tracking your own sleep and diet to changing your own biology and even implanting computer chips in your body. One of the famous lifestyle trend is called young blood transfusion, wherein you pump a younger person’s blood into your veins in order to fight aging. DIY biology also includes cryotherapy to purposely making yourself cold, neurofeedback to train yourself to regulate your brain waves, near-infrared saunas that help you escape stress from electromagnetic transmissions, and virtual float tanks to induce a meditative state through sensory deprivation. These are just few of the many other methods that are wacky to hear but intriguing to try out.
Meet these Implantation Enthusiasts Zaitsev, a programmer with a ducktail haircut, taught himself to insert chips. The 28-year-old medical school dropout caught national attention in 2015 when he took out the chip out of a Moscow metro pass and dissolved it in acetone and encased it in silicone, before inserting it into the back of his hand. He also has magnets on his fingertips, mainly for party tricks. It is estimated that about 1000 Russians are already chipped. Biohackers congregate in dedicated online networks like WhatsApp groups, etc. In person, they run experiments and take classes at “hacklabs,” improvised laboratories that are open to the public, and attend any one of the dozens of biohacking conferences held each year.
How Long Till We Become Superhumans ? Dave Asprey, a biohacker who created the supplement company Bulletproof, believes that it is just the starting of a bio-revolution. This art and science of changing the environment around and inside humans would enable them to have full control over their own biology in the near future. Forty years ago, test-tube babies seemed unnatural yet now Vitro fertilization has achieved mainstream acceptance. Rob Carlson, an expert on synthetic biology believes that if you assert that hackers are changing what it means to be human, then we need to first have an agreement about what it means to be human.
#Watch | Russia's #biohackers are pushing the boundaries: The process includes the incision of a chip!@PriyankaSh25 has more details! pic.twitter.com/6CmsMuu2hd — WION (@WIONews) February 19, 2020
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Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is a philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations as well as the ethical limitations of using such technologies. The most common transhumanist thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the current condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings. More Info
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