The Transhumanist Biological Capability Map A Comparative Engineering Roadmap for Human Enhancement
Introduction I don’t think humans are biologically finished. I also don’t think nature is random. What we call evolution is basically a massive distributed research and development system that has been running for nearly four billion years. Every organism alive today is a working biological solution that survived real constraints like energy efficiency, survival pressure, reproduction, disease resistance and environmental stress. Because of this, I don’t treat biology as fixed or sacred. I treat it as a modular engineering system. Different species are different configurations of biological modules that have been optimized under different conditions. Humans are one configuration. We are strong in cognition and abstraction, but relatively average or weak in most extreme survival domains like regeneration, hypoxia tolerance, radiation resistance and sensory expansion. The purpose of this framework is not to copy nature or imagine enhancements randomly. The purpose is to break bi...