The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 245 of 254

Human nature is not set in stone

These dystopias are readily imaginable only because at some level it is obvious that human nature need not be set in stone, and that there is no reason in principle why creatures like ourselves might not become radically different.

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