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NATURE

³⁴ Žižek, S. “Lacan: The Silent Partners. Verso Publishers” 2006. P.182.
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HUMAN

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CONCLUSION

⁸⁹ ‘Humanism and Transhumanism’. https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/humanism-and-transhumanism