[ExI] Smarter mice

[Ben]

"William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
 > Transhumanism will happen even without ...


I think you're misusing the word 'Transhumanism' there, Bill.

It's not something that 'will happen', it's an attitude, a world-view, 
or at least an aspect of certain world-views.

That can mean a million different detailed things, and result in many 
different paths into the future.  Some of them will be purely 
biological, yes, although many of them won't.  And some of them (my 
favourite ones) will involve such a thorough merging of biological and 
non-biological that it will ultimately be impossible to tell the difference.

Transhumanism is, at its core, the desire to improve the human condition 
through the rational application of technology.  If it can be said to 
'happen' at all, it's happening now, and has been for a long time.

Ben Zaiboc