ABSTRACT
The most often repeated claim is that people are on the verge of technological breakthroughs in genetic engineering, in pharma-cotherapy and in the replacement of biological tissues that will dramatically transform our sense of what we are and thereby threaten our humanity. At the root of humanity is the Existential Intuition. The distinctive genius of humanity is to establish an identity that lies at an ever-increasing distance from organic nature, people should rejoice in the expression of changing human possibility in ever-advancing technology. Anyone who considers the new technologies as inhuman, or a threat to humanity, should consider this. They should spend five uninterrupted minutes imagining the impact of a major stroke, severe Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease on their ability to express their humanity. Self-transformation is the essence of humanity and our humanity is defined by our ever-widening distance from the material and organic world of which we are a part and from which we are apart.
