[kahljorn]

Spaceships, you twatwaffle.

Ya and the furthest we have gone is the moon which took forever. Imagine trying to fly to another solar system or galaxy...

If I am making sense of this gobbeldeygook that you call a paragraph, you are telling me that transhumanism will overcome ignorance, evil, and social injustice. My question is, why would it do that?

because of technologu and nanotechnologu. we can replace our brains and become more smarter, obviously. Plus the world around us will be vastly different with all the technology we have the access to resources and many of the normal drives and desires of human beings could even be eradicated. And those were just examples. Poverty and starvation could maybe b ehandled by things that make us not get hungry anymore and inequalities like physical strength and intelligence could be easily diminished...

The thinkers of the Enlightenment insisted that they could do that, the proponents of the industrial revolution insisted they could do that, and the 19th century colonialists insisted they could do that in Africa, South America, and Asia. Look how that turned out.

So what? Were they replacing their bodies entirely with robots and living thousands of years in the future from now?

and anyway it's not as if the enlightenment and the industrial revolution didn't have a huge affect on our society; even if it didn't solve our problems completely.

I'm not sure. I'll have to chew that one over for a while, actually.

You're a real deep thinker.

Be careful because you risk either making it so nobody is human or so that chimps are human :O

and also what distinguishes humans from equally/more intelligent/developed/emotionally-sensitive extra-terrestrials?

you know transhumanism does seem pretty optimistic though!