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Re:Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017) by ebg13 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:07PM (#19792907)
> Transhumanism is based on a wholly materialistic conception of reality. In effect it says, “What we now understand about the mind and consciousness is all there is to it; there’s nothing left but to fill in the details of how the brain works.”

Woops, I detect a straw man being set up! The view in opposition of "we already know everything" is not "woo must be true", but merely "evidence rules".

> For millennia the majority of the human population has believed...

...that the sun was pushed across the sky by a great scarab beetle. Oh wait...that isn't what you were going to say? Oh. So maybe believing things doesn't make them true.

Re:Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017) by burtonator on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:12PM (#19792948)
> For millennia the majority of the human population has believed...

argument from antiquity.

Re:Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017) by HNLurker2 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:37AM (#19847838)
But Schopenhauer ideas that come from Plato to Kant which also says "mind is everything" Eastern idea is the valid one.

See: the will and representations