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(2019) Transhumanism - Engineering the human condition, Dordrecht, Springer.
Overcoming the limitations of our short lives has always being among the deepest, most heartfelt of human desires, no matter how arrogant this may sound. And, by the way, just look at the original Latin root of the verb "desire," a combination of "de," which indicates "lack of something," and 'sidus," that is, 'star." To desire literally means "to miss the stars," to feel a need for them. Transhumanists, like many others, want to fulfill this "human, too human" desire to reach for the stars, and in a quite literal sense. Reaching the stars, living among them, becoming like Gods, and, of course, living forever, without ever having to meet the Grim Reaper.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04958-4_1
Full citation:
Manzocco, R. (2019). Stairways to the sky, in Transhumanism - Engineering the human condition, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-31.
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