Looking forward to hearing @mrkocnnll in discussion at #GuardianLive tonight on "Is the future transhuman?" covering themes from his book "To be a machine" membership.theguardian.com/event/to-be-a-…
Ahead of tonight's talk, I can offer some comments on Mark's book (to which I listened all the way through on Audible). On the whole, it’s a good book, from which I learned a considerable amount. goodreads.com/book/show/3055…
Even when the book was featuring people in the transhumanist community that I thought I already knew well, I frequently found out more about their backgrounds, their projects, and their personal struggles. #GuardianLive
The writing is pretty cute – sometimes too cute. It comes as no surprise to learn that the writer has a doctorate in Eng Lit. And there are some touching sections, such as a discussion between his wife and their 3 year old son about the idea that aging might one day be abolished
Other parts annoyed me – the author seemed unnecessarily stubborn in some of his misunderstandings of transhumanism. For example, he erected far too much of an opposition between “biology” and “technology”. #GuardianLive
By no means all transhumanists are fixated on leaving their biology behind. Instead, most of us are keen to enhance our biology - body, brain, mind, and spirit - by taking good advantage of science & technology #GuardianLive
For a different take on the importance and relevance of transhumanism, see my (work in progress) "Sustainable Superabundance: A universal transhumanist manifesto for the 2020s and beyond") #GuardianLive transpolitica.org/projects/abund…
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