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Transnormalism

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Society is unlikely to fall suddenly under the spell of the transhumanist worldview. But it is very possible that we will nibble at biotechnology’s temptin...

Society is unlikely to fall suddenly under the spell of the transhumanist worldview. But it is very possible that we will nibble at biotechnology’s tempting offerings without realizing that they come at a frightful moral cost… Modifying any one of our key characteristics inevitably entails modifying a complex, interlinked package of traits, and we will never be able to anticipate the ultimate outcome… we may unwittingly invite the transhumanists to deface humanity with their genetic bulldozers and psychotropic shopping malls. — Fukuyama (2004) the great artisan… made man a creature of indeterm

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