Good points René. I completely agree that "what transhumanism is mostly concerned with is choice" - the choice to pursue "personal preferences which may or may not be shared by others."

Nazis would not be included because their choice is to violently force their personal preferences onto others and violently preventing others from making their own free choices. That can't be part of transhumanism.

As usual, we disagree on religion, but as you put it, that the "metaphysical" realm "needs to be subject to scientific, empirical investigation," I almost agree! In fact, my work is focused on a fusion of science, metaphysics and theology. I say almost, because there is one caveat (that we discussed elsewhere): Current science is not advanced enough to really understand these things, and vague poetic insights are often the best we can do.

By the way, this is Giulio. I don't remember why I chose to go by Heisenberg here (either quantum physics or Breaking Bad I guess), and I don't see how to change that. Also, how do I set my avatar?

So is Steemit the next Facebook? Should we move here?