Hydra -- a new collection

And a new collection on Amazon -- Hydra!

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transhumans and biology

People are organic. We are the product of biology. Transhumans might have the option of not being so. They might be able to decide how much human would remain in the trans-human mix.

If you were in the position to decide, how much humanity would you keep? Would you elect to sleep? Eat? Excrete?

And what of sex? It is pure pleasure, but it is also the most biological of all biological functions. 

Would you keep it?

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Alas, the futurists.

Poor futurists. So few ways to be right. So many ways to be dead wrong.

I don't envy them.

Halloween, the Masque, and the Transhuman

The great joy of holidays like Halloween and celebrations like the Carnival is that we can put on masks and experiment with being someone else. We play at taking on an alternative identity.

The transhuman, however, will actually have the option of being someone else; taking on a different body, a different personality, even different memories.


What would that mean for us? As individuals and a civilization?

bodily functions...

Suppose you could live without eating, or sleeping, or breathing, or, indeed of any biological functions.

Would you still keep them just for the pleasure of having them? Would you, for example, continue to eat so that you remain a cook and a gourmet?

is there such a thing as transhumanist fiction

I write stories in which transhumanism plays an important role. But, I wonder, are transhumanists too busy creating transhumanism to read stories about it?

I find that an amusing thought.

suppose...you could be superhuman. Would you do it?

Suppose you could become transhuman/superhuman with some simple act. Maybe all you had to do was drink a mug full of nanobot tea and you would be instantly transformed. It would be simple, painless, and easy...

But, you'd never be the same again. Everything...everything!...about your life would change.

Would you do it?