transhumanism

Villainous Transhumanism

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I hear that the villain in Dan Brown’s new novel, Inferno, is a Malthusian transhumanist. Brown isn’t the first to use fiction to explore the potential downside of the transhumanist movement. The Frankenstein series by my pal Dean Koontz, for example, is all about transhumanism — as indeed, when you think about it, was Mary [...]

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Transhumanism: Amputating a Healthy Limb

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I first heard of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) at a transhumanist convention. BIID, also known as “amputee wannabe,” is a terrible mental illness in which sufferers obsesses and truly anguish about becoming an amputee — which they perceive as their true identities. At the conference, the transhumanist speaker argued that sufferers should be able [...]

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Kurzweil’s Baby Boomer Narcissism

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For Baby Boomers–my profoundly disappointing generation–it has always been about us. And now, according to Ray Kurzweil, inventor extraordinaire, some of us may live forever. Yes, he’s on again about human immortality. From the story in the Wall Street Journal: “I’m right on the cusp,” he adds. “I think some of us will make it [...]

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Transhumanists Want to be Gods

Transhumanism is a collective of (mostly) naked materialists who hope science and technology will replace the deeper meaning they lost by rejecting metaphysical beliefs. Transhumanists harbor futuristic dreams of making themselves immortal and possessing what would now be thought of as superpowers through technological recreation. Toward those ends, they spend a lot of time and [...]

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Yearning for the Tyranny of Moral Enhancement

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The Gray Matter Brigade is at it again — pushing artificial means of “moral enhancement” to improve the behavior of the human race. Part of the meme is to become extraordinary without having to earn it through discipline and hard work. With regard to moral enhancement, the hope is to use artificial means to make [...]

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Singularity Documentary

Anyone interested in where science, medicine, biotechnology, and information technology are headed should be interested in the concept of the singularity. Helpfully, a documentary has just been released that topic. In an interview with The Atlantic, the filmmaker reveals a bit of his journey to understanding the singularity and making the film. as I interviewed [...]

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Peter Singer Falls for Immortality Quest

Oh good grief. Peter Singer has embraced Aubrey de Gray’s quest to defeat human aging. For those who don’t know, de Gray — who looks like a long-lost member of ZZ Top — believes that his research is so important that it should be funded ahead of providing healthcare for destitute Africans. Indeed, I saw [...]

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AI Might Emulate the Brain But Never the Mind

I don’t understand the appeal of artificial intelligence, whereby somehow we would construct and program a computer to become an independent “thinker” by becoming self-programming. One doesn’t have to worry about an apocalypse out of The Terminator movies to recognize the peril. But my real concern with the AI agenda involves the anti humanism that [...]

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Pushing Human Enhancement in a Starving World

I am out of patience with the Utopian transhumanist would-be human enhancers. They preach a future of astonishing health and longevity — that we can gain the vision of a hawk and the memory of a computer — and want us to pour research dollars into the futile immorality project. Latest example: “How Science Can [...]

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The Prospect of Immortality

As you may know, some transhumanists (and others) are interested in cryopreservation as part of their goal of achieving immortality, and if not immortality then greatly extended life span. The hope is that at some point in the future, when medical science has greatly improved, their bodies might be able to be resuscitated and/or their [...]

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