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287. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality | Helen Joyce

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Trans Humanists Are on the Cutting Edge of a Trans Humanism

There's an open question here is, well, how far can the transformations of our identity go in an increasingly technological world? And how far should they go? Trans humanist types who believe that our consciousness could be uploaded into a computer also have a proclivity to fall into the camp that says your identity is only what you say it is. It's this soul idea that's independent of the body. There's a wish in that to be free of the change and constraints of mortal existence. But running away from something into fantasy is not the way to address it.

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