The real shocker of transhumanism is that once its principles are worked out, one finds that there is actually an overwhelming focus on hardware upgrades, where much of the actual work that could be done right now - few are excited to address - that of the software upgrades. These are rational thinking, augmented linguistics and writing, and augmented communication.
What one finds in presenting possible software solutions to human problems is that they are actually quite boring. (eg: The US can't even change to the metric system.) The unresponsiveness to their presentation proves that the reasons people are into transhumanism have more to do with fantasy, novelty, and false hope (just like regular old religion and mysticism).
Much of what could become grounds to gather over transhumanism easily becomes like the predatory practices and deceptions of organized religions and cults.
While transhumanists seem to be naive about the timeframe of their technology, I have little doubt in the long-term, eventual possibility of all the technologies Transhumanists describe.
Genetics will eventually reach a sophistication as to absolve death by old age and present distinctions in race and gender will fade either because of a smaller world, or because of genetic alterations. Artificial circuits and structures will be used to augment and replace most body parts. Of course all of this is on a scale of time in the thousands of years, rather than decades.
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What one finds in presenting possible software solutions to human problems is that they are actually quite boring. (eg: The US can't even change to the metric system.) The unresponsiveness to their presentation proves that the reasons people are into transhumanism have more to do with fantasy, novelty, and false hope (just like regular old religion and mysticism).
Much of what could become grounds to gather over transhumanism easily becomes like the predatory practices and deceptions of organized religions and cults.
While transhumanists seem to be naive about the timeframe of their technology, I have little doubt in the long-term, eventual possibility of all the technologies Transhumanists describe.
Genetics will eventually reach a sophistication as to absolve death by old age and present distinctions in race and gender will fade either because of a smaller world, or because of genetic alterations. Artificial circuits and structures will be used to augment and replace most body parts. Of course all of this is on a scale of time in the thousands of years, rather than decades.
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