I'll see your transhumanism and raise you Chaos.
Transhumanism is an Utopian idea. But a reality-based nightmare.
Reality in the multiverse is an entirely different matter than the best laid plans.
Random genetic recombination is the response of life to a natural universe that throws just about every imaginable stress on living systems.
Since transhumanism depends on a finite human mind- or worse yet, a robot mind imperfectly designed in mockery of a human's- to plan for an indefinite future, it's bound to fail in transmission.
Of course, that doesn't mean Darth Cheney won't give orders to Skynet to nuke the human race when his heartbeat stops. It only means Liz and the little Cheney clones are likely to get ashed as well if he does.
But bear in mind relatively sapient primate species have come and gone on this planet for the last 10 million years. Of course, therapod dinosaurs came and went for 120 million. Birds remain, and quite wonderful beasts they are at that.
Believe it or not, genetically and by the fossil record
, those critters are and remain the latest thing in the dinosaur evolutionary line 
.Your mission if you decide to accept it is make the next generation better.
Whether you do anything or not it will be different.
The Chicago School and the D.o’D. and the latest incarnation of the Holy Roman Empire want to reinstall technological neofeudalism (a.k.a. Transhumanism) or Apocalypse, whichever is more profitable.
Many of us have no intention of letting humane humanity become extinct, no matter how cool they think it is over at DARPA.
We’re doing our best to evolve the intellectual equivalent of wings, and propagate the meme song.
Recombination is nature’s solution to chaos.
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