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The first sentence is baloney. Technological advances can have a HUGE bearing on the advancement of our nature, they just aren't the sole determining factor. A technological advancement granting immortality, for example, would require a very basic change in our nature. Or discovering that free will doesn't actually exist, that the human mind is completely deterministic, that would also change philosophy drastically.
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I completely believe that technology can change nature, but I don't think that it progresses or advances. In regards to ethics and philosophy, we are right back where we started.
You're going to have to expand on your last point regarding the negation of free will. I think this perspective is highly dependent on the education we are presented with in this age.