Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity
Matters of Life and Death
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Technology has already transformed business and is transformed er. Why shouldn't it also transform aging, or our brains capacities, or our bodies? It's a sense in which why can't we use this, anology that's already surpassed other barriers in culture and society, to surpass the barriers inside our own humanity? Yea. And there's one of the very positive things about the american seigeist, isn't it? In the whole philosophy of life, its a kind of can do optimism. You know, why not? It esteni min non ye. I mean, europeans, they're all kind of trapped in their history... But America is the place where we just
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