We may successfully upgrade our bodies and our brains, while losing our minds in the process. Indeed, techno-humanism may end up…

“We may successfully upgrade our bodies and our brains, while losing our minds in the process. Indeed, techno-humanism may end up downgrading humans. The system may prefer downgraded humans not because they would possess any superhuman knacks, but because they would lack some really disturbing human qualities that hamper the system and slow it down. As any farmer knows, it’s usually the brightest goat in the herd that stirs up the greatest trouble, which is why the Agricultural Revolution involved downgrading animal mental abilities. The second cognitive revolution dreamed up by techno-humanists might do the same to us.”

–Harari, Yuval Noah.Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. London: Harper, 2016. (viacarvalhais)