The first organized group of modern transhumanists was the Extropian movement. It can be traced back to the late 1980s, after Max More and T.O. Morrow founded the Extropy Institute in 1988. The neologism “extropy” was defined by More as “th…[Figure: Table 1 summarizing the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies]
Caption: Table 1: “TESCREAL bundle” of ideologies.
Figure text: Ideology | Definition | Influential figures | Organizations
Transhumanism | An ideology centered around the idea…
Max More
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Max More is a foundational figure in contemporary transhumanism, having co-founded the Extropy Institute in 1988 and coined the term "extropy" to describe systems' capacity for intelligence and transformation. The course readings situate him as a key originator of the modern transhumanist movement, which the curriculum contextualizes within the "TESCREAL bundle"—a critical framework for examining how AI-adjacent ideologies interweave technological optimism with assumptions about human enhancement and progress. His work appears as a historical anchor point for understanding how contemporary AI discourse inherits transhumanist premises about transcending human limitations.
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