The only benevolent application of a thing as neuralink or chips in the brain would be for people with ALS or neurological diseases. If they can walk, speak and move again that'd be the only application I'd tolerate.
Here's a somewhat relevent article.So not sure if this is "transhumanism" as such.. Certainly about the dark side of what Silicon Valley companies and other innovations have brought to the world.
When one analyzes Huxley’s writings and then discovers the role of his family on the world stage, it becomes very clear that Huxley’s family played a large role in shaping the philosophical underpinnings of his work. One of the most important people in his intellectual life was his brother, Julian Huxley. Julian was an evolutionary biologist who also worked in the behavioral sciences (developing propaganda programs for large organizations). The term "transhumanism" was coined by Julian Huxley. At one point, he wrote:Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.
But going deeper into the history of Julian Sorrel Huxley (1887-1975), it turns out he was also a devout life-long member of the British Eugenics Society, and served with John Maynard Keynes as secretary and later as its president."I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny." Julian Huxley
Did you catch that? The original charter of UNESCO specifically calls for for a single world government to create peace and security! The charter then goes on to discuss the importance of population control.“The moral for UNESCO is clear. The task laid upon it of promoting peace and security can never be wholly realised through the means assigned to it- education, science and culture. It must envisage some form of world political unity, whether through a single world government or otherwise, as the only certain means of avoiding war… in its educational programme it can stress the ultimate need for a world political unity and familiarize all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization.”
What you want to do is read a book Technopoly by Neil Postman A very good book critiquing our understanding of technology and its costs on society.However at the end, he points out there is a continuum in all things. He asks if we should smash our smart phones and head for the hills. He says if we do, we'll need to take our store bought coats, and probably store bought food, or at least take store bought gear to grow, hunt, and prepare our food. He says to some extent, words on a computer tablet are just an extrapolation of marks cut into a clay tablet with a stylus. We have to use technology, and technology is not evil in and of itself.
InterestingI agree it would be interesting to see how Buddism and Hinduism react. I think Hinduism, especially, may embrace it. Something like this may fit right into their understanding of a manifestation of the "gods".
Maybe Buddhism would embrace it too as you could claim you are reaching a state of unity or nirvana by releasing from your humanity.
I found this article which seems to agree:
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Transhumanism in India: Between faith and modernity
The World Transhumanist Association (WTA) has provided a formal definition of transhumanism: “The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibilitywww.businessinsider.in
From the article:
"Another reason that is cited for the potential success of transhumanist technologies in India is that Indic religions are perceived to generally be more open to the idea of human improvement (through technology) than Western Christianity. Zoltan Istvan (founder of the US Transhumanist Party and candidate for the 2016 US Presidential election on behalf of this party) says, “Many transhuman goals, like trying to overcome human death, go against the grain of Western religions and their sacred texts. But Hinduism, Buddhism, and various other Eastern religions can be conducive for transhumanism and its goals.”