Bernal: The Flesh

See Bernal: The World.

Once again, we list Bernal's ideas to show parallels with Anderson's:

longer lives;
new human species;
cyborgs;
technological telepathy;
post-organic intelligences;
composite minds;
artificial life;
disembodied consciousness;
original humanity preserved as a relic.

This is a brief summary. Read Bernal's details. But, at the end of his chapter on "The Flesh," he goes right off the deep end:

Finally, consciousness itself may end or vanish in a humanity that has become completely etherealized, losing the close-knit organism, becoming masses of atoms in space communicating by radiation, and ultimately perhaps resolving itself entirely into light. That may be an end or a beginning, but from here it is out of sight.
-copied from "The Flesh." (see the above link.)

Unconscious humanity is a contradiction.