Transhumanism—advances in technology could already put evolution into hyperdrive – but should they?
David Trippett, The Conversation
Its advocates believe in fundamentally enhancing the human condition through applied reason and a corporeal embrace of new technologies. Take the hypothetical augmentation of human hearing, something I am researching within a broader project on sound and materialism. But human hearing is already being augmented. This raises heady questions about the very definition of sound. Must it be perceived by a human ear to constitute sound?