Max More

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| name = Max More

| image = Max More, Stanford 2006 (square crop).jpg

| caption = More at the 2006 Stanford Singularity Summit

| birth_name = Max T. O'Connor

| birth_date = January 1964

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| education = St Anne's College, Oxford (BA)
University of Southern California (PhD)

| occupation = Philosopher and futurist

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| spouse = Natasha Vita-More

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| website = http://maxmore.com/

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Max More (born Max T. O'Connor,{{efn|With name legally changed in 1990}} January 1964) is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on emerging technologies.Alex Heard, "Technology Makes us Optimistic; They Want To Live," New York Times, September 28, 1997Joel Garreau, The Next Generation; Biotechnology May Make Superhero Fantasy a Reality, Washington Post, April 26, 2002. He was the president and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation between 2010 and 2020.{{Cite web |title=Staff |url=https://alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetalcorstaff.html |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513032808/https://www.alcor.org/library/alcor-staff/ |archive-date=2021-05-13 |access-date=2024-03-16 |publisher=Alcor}}

Born in Bristol, England, More has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Anne's College, Oxford (1987).{{cite news|last=Regis|first=Ed|title=Meet the Extropians|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/extropians_pr.html |newspaper=Wired}} His 1995 University of Southern California doctoral dissertation The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, and Transformation examined several issues that concern transhumanists, including the nature of death, and what it is about each individual that continues despite great change over time.{{cite web|last=More |first=Max |title=The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, Transformation |url= http://www.maxmore.com/disscont.htm |publisher=A. Bell & Howell |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20040610182354/http://www.maxmore.com/disscont.htm |archivedate= 2004-06-10 }} In 1996, he married transhumanist Natasha Vita-More; the couple are close collaborators on transhumanist and life extension research.{{cite web |title = People: Natasha Vita-More |url= https://iamtranshuman.org/2019/11/14/natasha-vita-more/ |website=I am transhuman |date=14 November 2019 |access-date= 2021-05-20 }}

More founded the Extropy Institute and has written many articles espousing the philosophy of transhumanism and the transhumanist philosophy of extropianism,{{cite web|last= More|first=Max|title=The Philosophy of Transhumanism|url= http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/10/11183343/1118334310-109.pdf|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Oxford|accessdate=16 May 2013}} including his "Principles of Extropy".{{cite web |last=More|first=Max|title= Principles of Extropy|url= http://www.extropy.org/principles.htm |work=Extropy Institute|accessdate=16 May 2013|url-status= dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015142449/http://extropy.org/principles.htm |archivedate=15 October 2013}}Resources for Germline Technology, Washington Post, February 9, 2003. In a 1990 essay "Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy",{{cite web |last=More |first=Max |title= Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy |url= http://www.maxmore.com/transhum.htm |accessdate=16 May 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20051029125153/http://www.maxmore.com/transhum.htm |archivedate=29 October 2005 }} he introduced the term "transhumanism" in its modern sense.{{cite journal|last= Bostrom|first=Nick|title=A history of transhumanist thought|journal= Journal of Evolution and Technology|date=April 2005|volume= 14|issue=1|pages=1–25|url= http://www.jetpress.org/volume14/bostrom.pdf}}