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Afterword—Concluding Reflections: Yearning for Enhancement

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For all their differences, the world’s great religions seem to agree that humans need improvement. By whatever path we take, we yearn to have better lives or to become better people, to work in better institutions and live in better societies, while building a better world. Ordinary human lives are inadequate.

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Calvin Mercer Derek F. Maher

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Cole-Turner, R. (2014). Afterword—Concluding Reflections: Yearning for Enhancement. In: Mercer, C., Maher, D.F. (eds) Transhumanism and the Body. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342768_11

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