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The Transhumanists and the Anti-Humanists
There are two main streams of transhumanists thought. One is that we will have technologies that will preserve our own bodies and capabilities or extend them in ways that are so different from what we are used to, it'll be essentially a new kind of human being. The other is that minds won't need to have bodies at all because they will live on computers. If you're talking about practical problems with these things, how do you know whether this sort of idea is true?