This is just off the top of my head, so I'm aware I contradict myself. I didn't mean to come off as saying the topic was silly or not at all interesting, or couldn't be discussed ever, but in the same sense that space travel was meaningless to people in the 1800's, outside of the hypothetical, I don't think transhumanism will ever mean much to anyone living today. So maybe attributing it to being "right" or "left" is the wrong way to look at it, as you wouldn't consider the "concept", or science, of space travel to be "right wing" or "left wing". In the 1800's it would be "science fiction", and in the 2000's, transhumanism is "science fiction". But yeah, I could better familiarize myself with the concepts. There are probably different schools of thought involved in transhumanism. As a reference point in pop culture, if we consider something like 40k's Space Marines to be transhumanistic, then I would think it could be a good thing? But the reality of what is done with transhumanism could be entirely different...
This is just off the top of my head, so I'm aware I contradict myself. I didn't mean to come off as saying the topic was silly or not at all interesting, or couldn't be discussed ever, but in the same sense that space travel was meaningless to people in the 1800's, outside of the hypothetical, I don't think transhumanism will ever mean much to anyone living today. So maybe attributing it to being "right" or "left" is the wrong way to look at it, as you wouldn't consider the "concept", or science, of space travel to be "right wing" or "left wing". In the 1800's it would be "science fiction", and in the 2000's, transhumanism is "science fiction".
But yeah, I could better familiarize myself with the concepts. There are probably different schools of thought involved in transhumanism. As a reference point in pop culture, if we consider something like 40k's Space Marines to be transhumanistic, then I would think it could be a good thing? But the reality of what is done with transhumanism could be entirely different...
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