Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Carbonate Based Transhumanism
In order for all of these developments to occur, the minimum we would need is to be alive and to be digital. The carbonate based transhumanism on the other hand, they are interested in moving beyond our current limitations as human beings. And maybe you still remain as a human being but basically have the possibility of hearing, perceiving infrared lights, smelling much better like sharks or having an increased health span by 30 more years. So it's not about pure science fiction is actually we've got a good indication that something works in other species. It's just a matter of transferring the same technologies onto humans.
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