When was the last time you heard a transhumanist say something like this?
. . . the Enlightenment project of Reason to which many transhumanists are committed is self-erosive and requires nonrational validation. Transhumanist advocates for Bayesianism and transcending cognitive biases need to confront the repeated implosions of the religion of Reason into romanticism and mysticism, and develop more sophisticated and nuanced defenses of rationality.
If you’re as pleasantly shocked as I am, click over to the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies , where Prof. James Hughes is churning out a scrupulously fair and even-handed series of posts entitled “Problems of Transhumanism” .
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