Post-Biological Humans, but Still Creatures?

The Reactionary Epicurean raises an excellent and complex point.

William Saletan is delighted that once we've replaced all of our blood vessels with plastic,

"it'll go a long way toward loosening our concept of ourselves as biological creatures."

I'm actually surprisingly okay with that, so long as we don't loosen our concept of ourselves as incarnate creatures (incarnate in the broadest possible sense).

Can we move forward with the kinds of self-manipulating technologies that characterize the 'posthuman' project in such a way as to retain a shared reality of incarnate creaturehood (that is, as beings which were and are always already created)? If so, should we?

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[g50]

Yes & yes :P