Goodness, even a simple pair of eye glasses is augmentation.
All that is happening with 'transhumanism' is simply making it more 'high technology.'
I just don't see what the problem would be. As some other FReeper said, it's about the soul.
>>Strictly speaking, and concentrating solely on body augmentation, I do not see what the issue would be. After all, there are many advances in medicine that already augment the human body. For example, a life saving blood transfusion is not just giving the body more oxygen carrying capacity, but it is also augmenting the body’s own mechanism of RBC/hemoglobin production. A skin graft after a bad burn is helping the body’s healing capability. A heart transplant. A cornea transplant. A hip replacement. An cochlear implant to help you hear.
>>Goodness, even a simple pair of eye glasses is augmentation.
The only one of those that is an augmentation is the cochlear implant. The rest are repairs and replacements that are inferior to the original equipment.
The high priest of the transhuman movement, Ray Kurzweil, leads his disciples to believe in improvements over what God created. This involves implanted technology, gene splicing, and even nanobots in your bloodstream, vat-grown organs with your own DNA, or robot bodies to extend our life for 200 years or beyond . Of course, most of the technology is only science fiction at this point. But some of it exists now and people want to use it.