society indeed did not become transhumanist – that is, not in belief. Few of the biotech users endorse the philosophy of technological transcendence. But society is heading there in deed. Conservative forces (religion, disgust, precaution) were in this case grossly outgunned by the force of sheer desire.
We got, not transhumanism (as deliberate, informed, rational decision to self-consciously go beyond natural human capacity), but surreptitious transhuman behaviour, without the weird philosophy or the new aesthetics. Technology by default, without conscious ideology. Playing god – but using these new, unfathomable powers to… become more normal. So call it transnormalism.
— Read on www.gleech.org/enhance
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