[polybius]

> Humans already augmented their intelligence, their bodies, and their abilities with technology, and have done so for thousands of years.

Yes; it has often struck me that transhumanism is the unremarkable belief that new technologies will someday give our civilization new capabilities, mashed up with a kind of throbbing millenarian dubstep (these changes are imminent; they will transform everything; they will be our salvation; they will give eternal life or close enough; remarkable prophet-scientists will lead us to this promised future-land; etc. etc.) Wry G. K. Chesterton quote goes here...

(Forgive me, transhumanists, I know this is deliberately tweaking your nose; but so far this thread is light on actual transhumanists, and I thought gently provoking you might get you to appear! My research into your ways has been cursory at best, and I am perfectly amenable to being persuaded that transhumanism is a good thing to get behind... I settle back into my internet-armchair, and hope to be convinced.)