Is transhumanism an empty shell?

In recent years, a movement of ideas, hailing from the United States, has gained considerable momentum across the world to the point that it has been referred to as a Revolution -- the Transhumanist Revolution. Tomorrow, we will live 200 or 300 years... and of course, completely healthy throughout: immortality is just around the corner. These prophecies are based on the real advances made possible by artificial intelligence and research in biology, particularly when it comes to ageing, skipping nimbly from preserved and/or augmented humans to post-human beings.

However, in matters of the brain, the data are particularly complex and do not tend to support these prophecies. There is a clear contradiction between the eternal youth being promised and current realities, which remain terrifying. Drawing on the authors’ medical, scientific and educational backgrounds, this book shows that the slow and steady efforts of biological and medical research, to which artificial intelligence will contribute, remain the only way not only to understand the functioning of the brain, but also to keep it in good health (preserved brain), endow it with new capacities (augmented brain) and, within a yet unforeseeable period of time, to cure or stabilise neuro-degenerative brain diseases (repaired brain).

As for the post-human, the prospect has no tangible underpinnings. Written in an engaging and vivid style, this book is illustrated with examples from everyday life. It draws upon undeniable biological and medical scientific fact to expose the fraud represented by transhumanism and its excesses or delusions.