One option, which I've used in earlier work, e.g. here:
https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/machine-metaphysics-and-the-cult-of-techno-transcendentalism
is to distinguish
tech(no)-transcendentalism
and a more natural
evolutionary transcendentalism.
But I'm not sure this distinction is clear enough?
Yogi Jaeger
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