Ramez Naam on Human Potential

Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam

human potentialtranshumanism

‘Playing God’ is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all human history. Without these urges to “play God,” the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today. A few million humans would live in savannahs and forests, eking out a hunter-gatherer existence, without writing or history or mathematics or an appreciation of the intricacies of their own universe and their own inner workings.

More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, page 299, New York: Random House

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