Will Saletan is the occasionally brilliant and occasionally incendiary bioethics columnist for Slate.com. He is no friend of transhumanism, but gives us some grudging appreciation this week:

I remember going to a transhumanist conference a couple of years ago. For those of you who don’t know them, transhumanists are people who believe in the technological transformation of humanity into something greater. When I first left politics to cover this beat, I took a pretty conservative line on bioethics generally, and the transhumanists sounded pretty fruity to me. Well, they’re still kind of fruity. But they certainly are interesting, if you treat them as a voice in the public dialogue rather than as a threat to dictate future policy and destroy human nature (whatever that is). And the more you listen to their assault on conservative assumptions, the more you find yourself asking questions about the way things are and whether they have to be that way. Those are good questions to ask.

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