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Goals of Transhumanism include immortality, the merger of humans and machines, human-level artificial intelligence, and space colonization. The discourse of human enhancement is marked by the imminent emergence of a posthuman species and the culmination of human history in a technological upheaval referred to as the Singularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisions of Technological Transcendence\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the rhetoric of human enhancement as a system of mythic narratives, each developing around a key tenet of enhancement thought. These strategic stories are treated as myths, providing imaginative patterns for predicting technology's trajectory, envisioning the technological redemption of the human race, aligning the mundane world with a transcendent, technological future, and attributing a sacred quality to scientific progress. Despite their scientific cast, these narratives rest on and promote a futuristic ideology originating in a range of non-scientific sources. Chapters explore the narratives of progress, technologically directed evolution, the person as information, the posthuman as supplanting Homo sapiens, technological immortality, limitless artificial intelligence, and space colonization as human destiny. Together, these narratives constitute a contemporary mythology envisioning a comprehensive and rhetorically powerful account of a technologically transformed posthuman future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e James A. Herrick (PhD University of Wisconsin, MA University of California-Davis, is the Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. 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Such opponents adopt this position for a wide variety of reasons and in many different ways. They are sometimes fiery activists hammering against leaders and leading ideas and at other times are quiet, contemplative skeptics questioning all knowledge and all orthodoxy. They can be immersed in the politics of their time, like Bradlaugh or Thomas Paine. They can be poets like Heine and Shelley, historians like Gibbon, playwrights like Buchner, or novelists like George Eliot and Mark Twain. They may be scientists like Huxley, or philosophers like J.S. Mill. They may be most at home on the public platform, like Ingersoll, or in the study like Pierre Bayle. They can be relaxed men of the world like Hume or temperamental outsiders like d'Holbach. They may lead quiet and little known lives like the freethinker Collins or the clergyman Meslier, or they may be outstanding polymaths of their age, like Voltaire or Bertrand Russell.This book covers deists, skeptics and atheists. 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