Редактирование: The Transhumanist Wager (раздел)

== Philosophy ==
According to the author, ''The Transhumanist Wager'' puts forward a philosophy based on "a simple wager":<ref name="istvan-book-philosophy">[http://www.zoltanistvan.com/TranshumanistWager.html#e5 "The Transhumanist Wager"]. ''Zoltan Istvan''. "''The Transhumanist Wager'' presents an original, comprehensive, and rational new philosophy called TEF, or Teleological Egocentric 
Functionalism. TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: ''If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible—the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality—since it seems  evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.''"</ref>
<blockquote>If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible—the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality—since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.</blockquote>

Zoltan introduced some [[survivalist transhumanism|survivalist]] philosophy into the book such as the 'Three Laws of Transhumanims':
<blockquote>
    A transhumanist must safeguard one's own existence above all else.<br />
    A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible—so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First Law.<br />
    A transhumanist must safeguard value in the universe—so long as one's actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws.<br />
</blockquote>