What does fear look like for a transhumanist?

• Digital: Forgetting his smartphone over forgetting his toilet paper, before he gets on the can

• Primitive: Spiders, bugs and basic pain

• Existential: Living without meaning

• Biological: Overly neurotic, hyper-active thyroid and fight or flight system

Should a transhuman have fears? Yes. Without would lose the “human.“

What should a transhuman fear?

• Living too fast

• Too much noise

• Too little nutrition

An atheist and a pious transhumanist, say Richard Dawkins and Roger Scruton, both fear living without meaning or effort. Dawkins wishes to pursue physical truth (The one and only truth?) while Scruton a “human” truth, which is innately subjective by definition.

Ultimately the human of the future will look little like the human of today, but transhumanism is an unattainable and ever present goal. The atheist and pious split will not change over time as longs as agnosticism, i.e. “Cannot know” still exists. Would a future Dawkins “fear” aspects of religion? Perhaps to the extent that will interfere with his pursuit of physical truth only, “fear” here is much more practical and luxurious than the instinctive type assistive of human survival.

Should any “primitive” fears be kept to alleviate existential suffering? I think all of the instincts, but hoping for courage whenever it arises, as the best future human form. Keeping action and reaction rather than getting rid of the whole thing leaves room for resilience.