Rethinking disability in an enhanced future: James Hughes' democratic transhumanism
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-10-16
A share on understanding disability in an enhanced future, with excerpts from James Hughes' democratic transhumanism: Hughes argues transhumanists must build solidarity with the oppressed and extend tolerance and equality to the full diversity of bodies and minds.
Unlike Savulescu, he does not treat disability as an obstacle to full humanity — medical technology now lets people with disabilities live full, meaningful lives, making them allies of transhumanism and expanding what it means to be human.
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