The Transhumanists and the Post Humanist Movement

Post humanism is what they're calling. The fight between the post humanist, there's one group that can feels themselves to be the continuation of the enlightenment that privileges the human category as the center. And the other one is the decentering of humanity itself. This is where you get these post human movements that are literally about total depopulation of the planet to save the earth and all this different stuff. But transhumanists come at it from the scientific or the sort of philosophical cultural perspective which is ultimately anti human. So their epistemology is relativistic. They're trying to be lured into this post human future when they're explicit.

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