I see what you're getting at, there's an element of premeditation and volition that seems necessary. I do wonder how premeditated the first dairy farmers were though. How accidental was that, really? It's like a historical proto-CRISPR.
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well there is something distinct in the evolution of technology (if i may use a very broad definition of the word) in the invention of domesticated animals, true. definitely at the time this allowed the humans to surpass (trans-) what their forbears' human condition was
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but beyond interpreting it IAW the literal latin of *trans* obvs transhumanism means something specific these days
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yeah, thats why I'm prefixing "proto" here because the modern usage is more specific. I think we've been doing proto-transhumanism for an extremely long time.
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we're about awfully dualistic with this though, focusing entirely on alterations to the body. technological augmentation/alteration of the mind is also a transhumanism imo. We've been doing this with prosthetics (e.g. writing) and chemistry (e.g. drugs) for thousands of years.
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