Transhuman Ethics and Philosophy

Transhumanism is a movement to advance the human body and mind by technological or genetic means, but mostly by technological means. It is to make the possibility of near immortality, immunity to all diseases, the structural near invulnerability of the human body as well as the advancement of mind processes possible. In terms of individual, the movement is habited by all sorts of belief groups such as I have met transhumanist Muslims and Christians. In the terms of the perspective of an Iranian Muslim transhumanist I have debated with, his opinion was: "If Allah gave the human intelligence, why shouldn't we use it to its fullest extent and for the better?" Transhumanism isn't an atheist only movement but a technologically progressive movement that has anyone who is progressively minded.

Personally, I am a transhumanist but also a skeptic of it as I see particular flaws in it. These are:
-Persistence of consciousness
-The naive idealism towards computational value of a brain emulation
-Transhumanism in a capitalist society

Persistence of consciousness:
Persistence of consciousness is the continuous self-identity of the mind even after mind transfer aka mind uploading. The critical point of it is that I do not see the possibility of making persistence of consciousness possible in my lifetime nor in the future 200 years as the complex mind and the mysterium of consciousness is not fully understood in a neurological nor psychological sense.

Naive idealism towards computational value of a brain emulation:
Every article I have read on the computational value needed for a brain emulation states that a processing unit in the Khz spectrum would be sufficient due to the brain only having action peaks of a couple thousand per second. Yet comparing an organic brain to a computer is a bad comparison alone as the process of thought and emotion alone would need great computational value whereas the bodily functions, if still available, would need only processing in Khz. Mhz or Ghz processing would need to be checked on terms of mind emulation to avoid subjective time difference as too fast processing could cause slow motion subjective time awareness while too slow processing would cause subjectively quicker time lapse.

Transhumanism in a capitalist society:
This is the most critical point as I see the possibility of legal slavery in terms of clients for new bodies who are unable to pay for their new bodies. Because in capitalism, if you don't pay you don't own. Not paying for complete cybernetic augmentation would result in the ownership of your body by someone else. That is slavery. Theoretically an immediate law should be passed to avoid the possibility of cyborg ownership in terms of slavery.

Also there is the problem, if a person is fully mechanical/cybernetic with an emulated brain the question of humanity arises. Such as "Am I still human?" "Have I been psychologically altered?" "Am I being controlled?" or "Am I still capable of free will?"

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