Re: "natural"

From: dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 10:59:48 MST


Nothing that occurs in nature can properly be called unnatural. Period.

If the indefinitely many strands of transhumanism have *any* common
denominator at all, and I often doubt that they do, it would probably be a
shared suspicion of the normative/ideological force of the term "natural,"
generated by a shared sensitivity to the historical and potential
consequences of technological development.

Best, Dale



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