self-alteration

In the absence of any deliberately defined criteria of choice, self-alteration may become as massive as the technological and scientific onslaught on the natural environment that is already occurring.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

In fact, self-alteration is in part self-gratification.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

An analogous dilemma is now surfacing with regard to human self-alteration.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

In the technologically and economically advanced parts of the world, science and technology are dramatically enhancing the human capacity not only for self-gratification but also for self-alteration.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

It has to apply to physical power, which has to be deliberately restrained through international agreements and voluntary moral codes, because power now can destroy all of humanity directly as well as indirectly through mindless exploitation of the environment and human self-alteration.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

The priority given to individual self-gratification, combined with the growing capacity of the human being to reshape itself through genetic and other forms of scientific self-alteration—with neither subject to moral restraint—tend to create a condition in which little self-control is exercised over the dynamics of the desire to consume and to tinker with the self.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

It came to him, then, why Ted smiled benignly on all the self-alteration that was so fashionable in Lancer.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

But as in real-world play, MUD play centered on self-exploration rather than self-alteration, Calvert asserts.

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We need to understand that it's a conception of the self that is driving the acceptance of new technologies of self-alteration here, rather than vice versa.

Concurring Opinions 2009

But what Kant did not and could not have anticipated was the enhancement of human capabilities both for material self-gratification and for increasingly far-reaching scientific self-engineering, thereby re-focusing man’s preoccupation from the externalities of life—such as the struggle with nature—toward what might be called the internalities of life—such as gratification of personal desires and not just needs and even capricious self-alteration.

Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993