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Chapter 3 begins by outlining the transhumanist conceptualization of knowledge as a uni-directional path of progress making the world ever more tractable to human reason. Transhumanists conceptualize knowledge as a guarantor of human progress. Their denial of complexity is exacerbated by hubristic and hyperbolic conceptions of human reason that constitutes a faith in epistemological certainty. Complexity theory will be drawn upon to contest this simplistic worldview. The influence of cybernetic thought upon transhumanism will be outlined to demonstrate how a dubious 'informational frame' underpins transhumanist fantasies of radical abundance and immortality. The instrumentalist tendencies of technological progress will be considered as enframing or constraining other possible trajectories of techno-human co-evolution. Foucault's analysis of the relationship between knowledge and power will be drawn upon to reflect on how technologies can be used to direct, regulate and manipulate human conduct. The underlying urge to control natural and social forces that is evident in transhumanist discourse will be considered in relation to an equivalent urge in technocapitalist relations.

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