Overlooking the fact that science is meant to serve man and not the opposite, Prof. John Harris discusses bioengineering and the future of man, which includes this little insight that doesn't even blink at the thought of
replacing mankind with creatures out an Olaf Stapledon novel:
Some of these possibilities are so radical that the creatures benefiting from them would no longer be “human”, in the way we think of it. The end of humanity then is not in itself a concern; making sure that those who replace us are better than we are is a huge and timely concern.
When a professor of bioethics talks like this, it makes the most bloodstained Druid look like a humanitarian in comparison.
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