Philosophically Speaking: Annals of the International Philosophy Grou Philosophical-Annals-II-2017 | Página 8

Dambrot S M
fundamental factor that is invariably undefined yet implicitly or explicitly assumed to be an unchanging and unchangeable constant . HUMAN NATURE This is curious , in that the creators of said scenarios appear to be all about change , be they Singularitarians , Transhumanists , scientists , technologists , philosophers , or any other of the countless labels with which we describe ourselves to both ourselves and the world-at-large . Moreover , this cognitive bias is perhaps most pronounced in those scenarios concerned with post-scarcity economies , in which goods , services and information are universally accessible without the need for capital or its exchange in order to produce and acquire said goods , services and information . This chapter will examine the evolutionary neurobiology of what we experience and perceive as human nature 2 – the thesis being that as we learn more about the human brain and learn how to modify ourselves using a range of methods and techniques , human nature will take its rightful place amongst all other aspects of physical reality that we have studied , understood and modified . This shift in perspective will then form the cognitive foundation of a new approach to constructing a post-scarcity / post-capital scenario that is no longer bound to attitudes and behavior long and erroneously held to be inviolate . Human Nature : Fixed or Flexible ? In general , we appear to understand what is meant by human nature , accepting the term as if it refers to well-defined and permanent aspect of our existence . As the above quote demonstrates , this unquestioned assumption is independent of intellect , education and imagination , being more akin to religious belief in its unquestioned adherence to the axiom that human nature is , in Einstein ’ s words , “ fixed and unalterable .” While the concept that human nature is constant is understandable when viewed as an inference based on observing historically recurrent patterns in human behavior ( which are amplified versions of behaviors