"Aren't they working for our survival as a species?"
These wierd folks are just nutcases. They dream of a day when they "shed their human bodies," and are pure intellect.
They're like folks who believe that Star Trek is non-fiction.
Forget them. They're no more a news story than Alice in Wonderland is.
I wouldn't be so sure.
We live in an age when thousands of people have themselves injected with botulism toxin to look a bit better. What's gonna happen when you can engineer your kids (or yourself, for that matter), to have a distinct advantage in life that non-engineered people will not have?
>These wierd folks are just nutcases. They dream of a day when they "shed their human bodies," and are pure intellect.
The meek shall inherit the Earth (The rest of us will go to the stars!)