We're still stuck in the past. We need to get over our religious delusions and new age wishful thinking before we can start on humanism. Some people are still against humanism, that is, against the furthering of humanity, because religious teachings hold that the physical world isn't all we have, so it's better to neglect our physical selves to serve the great imaginary sky beings. Now assuming that we can even get to a widespread and accepted humanism, transhumanism can take off at a faster pace, as we actually care about improving ourselves for our own benefit, rather than leaving technological innovation in the hands of the medical industry which can charge large sums of cash for their products because only a small number of people use or need such innovations. Of course in most science fiction you see a point where people have left their reliance on god and are actively working to improve their bodies, but that assumes at some point we will have accepted our physical nature as the most superior known living organism, rather than denying what we are.
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Anonymous2008-04-14 22:21
>>1
My thoughts are that you are suffering from Transgenderism.
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Anonymous2008-04-14 22:31
Suffers from too many 14-year-olds and sci-fi faggots who don't know the difference between fantasy and reality.
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Anonymous2008-04-14 23:19
Rapture of the nerds. 90% of the people promoting it have their heads so firmly up their asses they can taste their own tonsils.
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Anonymous2008-04-15 8:48
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And a couple of years ago people thought that a human body will be damaged when travelling at speeds over 30kph.Or that it is impossible to extract usable energy from the nuclei of atoms.
whats a good transhumanism book? It looks like a wall of crap on amazon
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Anonymous2008-04-19 2:02
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The wall of crap is fairly representative. It's a bunch of pie in the sky bullshit spewed by people who just want to sit back and let some bizzare historical inevitability give them godlike abilities without having to work for it.
It's all bullshit of the highest grade, being written by idiots with little or no background in the fields they want to position themselves as experts in. When jacket blurbs can only cite as their expertise all the OTHER books they've written on the same bullshit, that should be your first clue that they're full of it.