# Riccardo Campa **Domain:** Transhumanism / Philosophy of Technology **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Riccardo Campa** authored “Transhumanism and Epistemology,” published in *Swissfuture* 2 (2009), pp. 18–22. The essay describes transhumanism's central idea as a move from blind evolution toward self-directed, self-conscious evolution and examines the movement's epistemological positions. The formulation also appears in the Italian Transhumanist Manifesto. ## Interpretive Boundary Campa's sentence is an affirmative philosophical proposal about what may be possible and desirable. It does not establish that human evolution is presently programmable or that every transhumanist agrees about mechanisms, politics, or identity continuity. ## Relationships - **Frames:** [[wiki/Self-Directed Evolution|Self-Directed Evolution]] as a transhumanist aspiration. - **Writing within:** [[wiki/Transhumanism|Transhumanism]] — the broader movement has more than one account of enhancement and succession. - **Collection and article routes:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]], and [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] supply related but distinct human-continuity and successor-carrier contexts. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "... it is possible and desirable to switch from blind evolution to self-directed, self-conscious evolution." > **— Riccardo Campa**, *“Transhumanism and Epistemology,” 2009* [[reminders/Evolution/Transhumanism Calls for Self-Directed Evolution by Riccardo Campa|Transhumanism Calls for Self-Directed Evolution by Riccardo Campa]] ## Sources / Provenance - [Riccardo Campa, “Transhumanism and Epistemology,” *Swissfuture* 2 (2009), pp. 18–22](https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/bitstreams/e9b016a3-895d-4471-84c8-111cee1ceb4d) — original essay, university-hosted PDF. - [Italian Transhumanist Manifesto, English text](https://www.transumanisti.it/europa/manifesto_english.htm) — parallel presentation of the formulation; manifesto authorship should not be inferred from quotation alone.