Morphological freedom is, according to neuroscientist Anders Sandberg, "an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires." Anders Sandberg (b. ... A right is the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled or a thing to which one has a just claim. ... Body modification (or body alteration) is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, such as spiritual, various social (markings), BDSM edgeplay or aesthetic. ...
Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. ... Body modification (or body alteration) is the permanent or semi-permanent deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons, such as spiritual, various social (markings), BDSM edgeplay or aesthetic. ... Human enhancement technologies (HET) are technologies that can be used not simply for treating illness and disability, but also for enhancing human capacities and characteristics. ... Procreative beneficence is a term refering to the moral obligation of parents to have the healthiest children. ... Procreative liberty is a term refering to the freedom to decide whether or not to have children as well as the freedom to control ones reproductive capacity. ... Techno-progressivism, technoprogressivism, or tech-progressivism (a portmanteau word combining technology-focused and progressivism), is a stance of active support for technological development and social progress. ... Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an intellectual and cultural movement analyzing and supporting morphological freedom and the use of new sciences and technologies to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition. ...
External links
Anders Sandberg, Morphological Freedom -- Why We not just Want it, but Need it
Dale Carrico, Morphological Freedom and the Conservatism of "Recovery"
METHODS Morphological space.--Our analysis is based on the position of each member of a community in an n- dimensional morphological hyperspace of which the axes are the logarithms of n measurements.
Morphological characters.--In this analysis, we have described morphological space by eight charac- ters, chosen according to availability of published data, ease of measurement, and lack of redundancy.
Morphological separation and ecological overlap were inversely related in small communities, but this relationship was less pronounced in larger assemblages.