transhumanism

Bored Immortals Can Commit Suicide

Every once in a while I like to check in on the machinations of the transhumanists and their immorality materialist eschatology. I oppose transhumanist theory because of its inherently eugenic premises and proposals, it’s anti human exceptionalism, and most especially, its presumption of the right to genetically engineer progeny to fulfill their own purposes — [...]

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Transhumanists as Nietzche’s Children

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC You are going to die. How’s that for a cheerful lede? But it is true. You are going to die. So am I. No escape. Deal with it constructively. Some say that when humans became aware of death, we invented religion for that precise purpose. [...]

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Transhumanism is Religion for Atheists

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is one of the major transhumanist Websites. The writers there really take the nonsense of uploading minds into computers and fashioning a post humanity seriously. I have opined often that transhumanism is a religion, that is, a [...]

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Tiny, Happy People

By C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., CBC Board Member Just when you think you have heard it all, someone pushes the envelope. According to three ethicists writing in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment, because geoengineering might be too risky a way to combat global climate change, we should alter the human species instead. Here [...]

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Global Warming Hysteria: Embracing Their Inner Transhumanist

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple. The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves to achieve eugenic ends. I have joked that transhumanist GWHs should want us to shrink [...]

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Global Warming Hysteria: Embracing Their Inner Transhumanist

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have often thought that transhumanism and global warming hysteria were a natural couple. The former blames humans for killing the planet, and the latter believes we can redesign ourselves to achieve eugenic ends. I have joked that transhumanist GWHs should want us to shrink [...]

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Transhumanism: Now It’s “Machine Rights?”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Oh brother. Every once in a while I like to check in to see what our friends the transhumanists are fantasizing about. The latest is apparently “machine rights” and “machine ethics,” that is the rules that should guide our treatment of machines once they attain [...]

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Transhumanism’s Mission to Create Ubermenchen Children is Coercive

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Reason magazine’s science writer, Ron Bailey, has long been in the thrall of transhumanism. (We debated once at CUNY). He has swallowed the immortality project without even chewing and has baptized himself in the scientism neo-faith that The Singularity will usher in a new era [...]

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Hitchens Understands That Death Gives Focus to Life

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Christopher Hitchens may be the best short form writer working today. Powerful writing and pointed advocacy — much of with which I disagree — thankfully undiminished by his fight with esophageal cancer. Indeed, the last time I wrote about Hitchens, I quoted him as wishing [...]

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Immortality Would Not Be Pretty

This season’s Torchwood, which was once fun science fiction — a spinoff of Dr. Who — has this season, become great science fiction. Shades of Death Takes a Holiday, the plot line has human death suddenly stopping, beginning with a child sexual predator/killer who survives his execution — played with magnificent smarminess by Bill Pullman, [...]

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