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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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Is the Yuck Factor a Faily Frustrated Emotion?

A lot of christians, when they listen to this ind of conversation, i think their instinct is to recoil from it. But what history shows us is that the yuck factor actually is a pretty fragile kind of emotional response. There may be some much deeper intuitions about about the limits of science and respect for god's creation order.

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