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wisely@feddit.org 3 days agoSo theoretically if we terraformed the Earth we would be free to genetically engineer humans to survive without lungs?
Comment on Bees don't have lungs.
wisely@feddit.org 3 days agoSo theoretically if we terraformed the Earth we would be free to genetically engineer humans to survive without lungs?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They wouldn’t be human. So much of us is built around our lungs, including our ability to speak that anything adapted to survive without them would be as different from a human as a human is from other lung-less animals. Even if they were more intelligent, they would not look or act remotely like a human.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Keyword suggestion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Okay, first of all, how dare you bring evidence and reason into this.
On a more serious note, I agree with the position mentioned in the second paragraph that transhumanism results in a posthuman being, that is, a species that is not human.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Human is such a flaky word, and species isn’t much better. I’d bet there could be a situation in which they can successfully interbreed with relatively modern humans and still produce viable offspring, so still the same species. Human doesn’t even require homo sapiens though. It can include other species that have the traits of humans.