Crackpots and philistines with money. Here's a metaphysical puzzle for you. If we are just meat machines, as no doubt these transhumanists believe, and there i

Crackpots and philistines with money. Here's a metaphysical puzzle for you. If we are just meat machines, as no doubt these transhumanists believe, and there is no teleology in nature, then how does one discern what is augmentation? Without teleology, such judgments are impossible in principle. The transhumanist might retort "Well, I think this and this is better". To that I respond: "Lo! Who speaks? Who be this I? Are you not but a machine? Are your preferences not as replaceable as anything else in that pile of parts only incidentally moving together? Replace those preferences to prefer no such transhumanist quackery." There is zero intellectual sophistication in transhumanism, even less sophistication than there is in the bankrupt lick of a metaphysics it rests on.