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On 30/11/2023 17:34, bill w wrote:<br>
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theme is very popular with scifi writers, as we know. I would
not call people who want changes in our bodies and brains a
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Good point, Bill.<br>
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I've noticed this too. although only a tiny proportion of the
population would actually identify themselves as transhumanists, an
increasing number of people appear to hold transhumanist attitudes,
expectations and hopes.<br>
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Although, here in Blighty, the transhumanist scene twenty-or-so
years ago pretty much consisted of 'six blokes in a pub' in London,
with a few scattered individuals that we would discover every now
and then, and now there are thousands (mostly younger people, but
not exclusively by any means).<br>
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Admittedly, a few thousand is still a tiny proportion of the
population, but it's a hell of a bigger proportion than we had in
1997, when I discovered there was a name for my own inclinations,
and that other people existed with the same inclinations. That's
quite a moment, discovering that you're not the only one.<br>
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Ben<br>
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