Then a Miracle Occurs...
The foundational belief of all Tranhumanists is that technology is accelerating. It is taken as a self-evident truth. Aubrey de Grey admits that his own ideas will only buy a few years of extra life so he resorts to his faith that biomedical technology will keep accelerating. Of course, Kurzweil puts his bogus "Law" of Accelerating Returns at the heart of his philosophy. So, when a scientist discovers some new drug or invention that represents an incremental improvement on what came before, it is heralded as the tip of an inevitable technological iceberg, because after all, technology is accelerating.
Here is my adaptation of Sidney Harris's classic cartoon of two scientists discussing some equations at a blackboard that I have changed to illustrate the reasoning of Transhumanists:
Here is my adaptation of Sidney Harris's classic cartoon of two scientists discussing some equations at a blackboard that I have changed to illustrate the reasoning of Transhumanists:
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