> We humans are mortal; we are fallible; and we are prone to exhaustion and irrational outbursts. Technology offers a path beyond our weaknesses and the potenti

> We humans are mortal; we are fallible; and we are prone to exhaustion and irrational outbursts. Technology offers a path beyond our weaknesses and the potential of an alternate reality, one in which we merge with machines and artificial enhancements to cure us of human deficiencies. > The promise of modern science addresses an ever-present-but-only-now-realizable drive to make life and man artificial; to cut, as Arendt put it, “the last tie through which even man belongs among the children of nature.” We will soon “produce superior human beings.” I take issue with the ideas this article is trying to present. Humans are not children of nature; they are nature. Humanity evolved of this earth and everything humanity has achieved is a consequence of that. I don't think that "technological advancement" severs any ties with the nature that birthed us, it is just the further progression of the same processes that created us and continue to shape us. For as long as humans have existed, we have been creating technology to deal with the environments we find ourselves in. Fire for warmth and cooking, clothing, tools, agriculture, etc. Is not the human ability to take an active and concerted role in shaping ourselves and our environments a part of what defines "humanity"? Modification of the human body itself is not even anything new; for thousands of years humans have been piercing themselves and binding themselves and even deforming skulls, before that fell out of fashion in the last century. To me, the lines being drawn here, that we must not modify ourselves or evolve beyond where we are at now, are arbitrary. I think there are good arguments over specifics when it comes to things like gene editing or AI, but to issue such a blanket statement that we must simply "man up" and "accept reality" seems overly broad, and itself ignores the actual reality that humans have been shaping ourselves and our world for as long as we have existed.