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Cathy Young

When humans transcend biology

By Cathy Young
July 10, 2006

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WITH EVERYTHING else that's happening in the world today, debates about whether humanity should embrace as yet nonexistent technologies that could enhance our physical and intellectual abilities and someday make us ``more than human" may seem frivolous. Nonetheless, a debate on ``transhumanism" has been going on for the past few years, with naysayers and doomsayers on one side, optimistic futurists ... (Full article: 779 words)

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