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The Dangers of Transhumanism

For the transhumanist there's only the biological body and the software running on the brain i.e the ego or Richard Rawkold's the false self if that's where you are ideologically then the only game in town is to keep the body and the mind the ego here for as long as possible. The real problem with transhumanism is that it kicks open the the gates of hell really when you think about where transhumanism could go  and i joke that transhumanists are cyberpunk writers who didn't get it because sorry william sorry bruce stirling's quote on cyberpunk yep anything they can do to a rat they will do they canDo to a

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