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  1. LordsFire

    Philosophy Leftism, Gnosticism, and Transhumanism

    It won't work that way, because cybernetic 'enhancement' isn't actually 'enhancement.' The human body is a fantastically capable of and robust machine, one which human technology still does not even approach matching the broad capabilities of. Sure, you could replace an arm with a machine...
  2. LordsFire

    Philosophy Leftism, Gnosticism, and Transhumanism

    There's no uniform group on things like this. Some more thoughtful sci-fi, especially cyberpunk subgenre like Ghost in the Shell, explicitly use cybernetics to explore 'what does it mean to be human?' in a context where physical humanity is being taken away. Some science fiction, like Eclipse...
  3. LordsFire

    Philosophy Leftism, Gnosticism, and Transhumanism

    Prosthetics to recover missing or lost functionality, is a very different concept than transhumanism. Transhumanism seeks to leave physical and biological humanity behind, to become something 'more,' something 'better.'
  4. LordsFire

    Philosophy Leftism, Gnosticism, and Transhumanism

    Zelensky isn't stupid enough to take a shot at someone like Carlson, and cause himself and his country serious political problems with the US, when they could keep working their way through Russian apparatchiks and military officers instead.
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