Yes, biology is a terrible demon to which we are all bound. But technology is just as much a part of being human as biology, arguably moreso, and makes a better logos or whatever. Biological differences including IQ differences exist but are iteratively nullified by tech.
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If you worship biological differences, even those that notionally "drive technological progress", you are missing the bigger picture. In the long run progress is a measure of the extent to which unaugmented biology no longer restrains human potential, period.
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This extends to any and all biologically intrinsic patterns of organization that are not necessarily intrinsic or optimal to conscious being in and of themselves.
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In a world where we are no longer constrained by biology, what makes a dragon a dragon, or a human a human?
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Consensual constraints are not real constraints, any more than the rules of Chess or the coding of StarCraft can be considered coercive.
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