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Aqua, of the Questioners ([personal profile] aquaeri) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2009-05-06 03:32 am (UTC)

Re: transhumanism

I'm hoping the derailing is okay given I've added the "subject". (otherwise: [personal profile] sqbr feel free to kick us out and make us go play elsewhere)

That definition doesn't help me at all. What is "the human condition"? How could anyone possibly begin to even think about defining "the human condition" without including our ability to reason and our ability to change our circumstances? Aren't those things pretty close to the core of what it means to be human? And what does "transcend" mean, apart from being a word with a high "warm fuzzy impressiveness" factor? Is this a sales pitch?

(I hope this doesn't feel like a personal attack; it's an attempt at a fairly close to realistic impression of the sorts of things that went through my head when I read that bit, slowed down enough to be written out.)

Also, don't know if you know, but might be relevant: I'm an evolutionary biologist and partly as a side effect of my training, partly as a deliberate exercise because I liked the effects, I've to some extent re-wired my brain to look at the world from an evolutionary perspective and that does mean there are things that are "perfectly obvious" to "normal" people that make no sense to me.

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