Introduction. The article is devoted to the ethics of transhumanism as a philosophical trend that elevates hedonistic values to the main principle of human existence. The desire to live without pain and without suffering here and now does not require explanation, while exhortations to suffering in earthly life for the sake of an illusory nirvana raise many questions. The difficulty in assessing transhumanist ideas is associated with the rigid determinism of human life by the technosphere. Theoretical analysis.