Cool perspective, thanks for posting.

I don’t really subscribe to the posthuman terminology though.

I think we’ll always be human, as long as we have genes, no matter how far advanced in intelligence we get, as a natural progression of evolution.

That belief is underpinned by belief in another possibility not covered in your article.

That we could be of an extraterrestrial origin, descended from more than one extraterrestrial species, with genes spliced with animals native to our planet, seems to make some sense to me.

Our science agrees with the overwhelming likeliehood that we are not alone in the universe.

It also agrees our genetic history bears traces which resemble those of domesticated animals.

So the literal interpretation of ancient Egyptian characters like Horus might actually be true.

It follows that if we were genetically spliced with primitive animals, we would have been severely intellectually handicapped, compared with our creators.

Yet we would have had the inevitable ability to rapidly develop into beings capable of using our intellect to influence, and override our animal instincts, to good or bad ends.

And they would have known that, our creators.

They would have foreseen our capability to destroy ourselves, our planet, and all life on it, by our own hand.

So they would have left us rules, intended to preserve our longevity, with meanings we might always interpret as being ambiguous, until we develop the intelligence needed to interpret pragmatically.

Hence religions, a slightly different one for each different splice, by each different type of creating visitor, but all with basically the same message: To look after our fellow humans. Failure to do at least that, is failure of our species, along with most other life on our planet.

Just look where we are at.

Isn’t that more like the actual truth?