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'''Transhumanist politics''' constitute a group of political[[List ideologiesof (seepolitical [[ideologies|political ideologyideologies]]) that generally express the belief in technology's potential to perfect the individual through the use of technology.<ref name="European Parliament 2006">{{cite journal|author=[[European Parliament]]|title=Technology Assessment on Converging Technologies|year=2006|at=ii|quote="On the one side are the true believers in the potential of technology to make individuals ever more perfect. Transhumanism is a political expression of that."|url=https://www.itas.kit.edu/downloads/etag_beua06a.pdf|accessdate=12 January 2015}}</ref> Transhumanist [[Zoltan Istvan]] claims that the transhumanism movement aims to improve humanity with [[technology]] and [[science]], and he gives [[life extension]] and [[human enhancement]] as examples of transhumanists' ideas.<ref name = "Zoltan">{{cite web|last=Istvan|first=Zoltan|title=Transhumanists and Libertarians Have Much in Common|publisher=[[Huffington Post]]|date=5 May 2014|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoltan-istvan/transhumanism-and-libertarianism_b_5248966.html|accessdate=13 January 2015|quote = Some may find it surprising the rapidly growing international movement of transhumanism -- a field that aims to radically improve and alter the human species using science and technology -- has a significant amount of libertarians actively supporting it. [...] It's these extraordinary ideas of transhumanists -- uploading people's minds into computers, reversing aging in order to live indefinitely, or becoming cyborgs via artificial hearts, synthetic limbs and brain microchip implants -- that often make it seem a far-out type of movement.}}</ref> Jeanine Thweatt-Bates considers it impossible to define transhumanist politics as one set of beliefs, as the transhumanist movement includes opposite political perspectives on the "central issue" of regulating technology.<ref name=thweattbates-cyborgselves-2013>{{cite book|last=Thweatt-Bates|first=Jeanine|title=Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman|date=28 June 2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=1409481832|quote=This diversity within the movement, allowing a scope of political perspectives that includes opposite views on the central issue of technology regulation, makes it impossible to label any single set of political beliefs as 'transhumanist politics.'}}</ref> [[James Hughes (sociologist)|James Hughes]] has noted the dynamic between left-leaning and right-leaning visions for transhumanism and the future of technology and human enhancement.{{cn|date=January 2016}}
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