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Technology in human and machine concept as advanced tech or robots taking over humanity and people merging with a cyborg or computers idea

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J.R. Miller
Date
January 30, 2022

Categorized
Transhumanism}

The Deadly Dream of Human+ Look at the Price Tag…

_{Some are prepared to sacrifice actual humans now for the hope of future immortality} _{J.R. Miller
January 30, 2022

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Recently, Elon Musk announced progress toward clinical trials of a brain implant which he believes will allow paralyzed people to control technology with their thoughts. For those who call themselves transhumanists, this potential breakthrough is more than a tool to help the disabled. For transhumanists, Musk’s technology offers hope that someday humanity will evolve beyond the limits of our frail bodies and become Human+. Two decades ago, Kevin Warwick expressed his dream of transcending humanity this way: I WAS BORN human. This was merely due to the hand of fate acting at a particular place and time. But while fate made me human, it also gave me the power to do something about it. The ability to change myself, to Read More ›

Surreal 3d illustration of multiple faces in a wall. Concept of post-human and transhumanism ideas.

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News
Date
January 27, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism

Tagged
transhumanism}

Is Transhumanism Really a Form of Liberation?

_{The central transhumanist doctrine is that the body can be dispensed with. What are the consequences?} _{News
January 27, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism}

Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief at The Post Millennial, Canada’s non-Woke “young” media outlet, offered some unexpected thoughts on transhumanism, the idea that we must take charge of the evolution of our species — sometimes expressed in the idea that we can upload ourselves as digital entities and live forever. Emmons is not sure that transhumanism is really a form of liberation. She acknowledges the value of, for example, prostheses controlled by thoughts alone. But she asks us to consider what full-blown transhumanism entails: With the widespread acceptance of human augmentation, bio-tech, AI, and transgenderism, we are removing agency from the human body, and granting it entirely to the mind. But our humanity lies not in our consciousness, but in the biological Read More ›

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J.R. Miller
Date
January 13, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Transhumanism

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Darwin, Eugenics, transhumanism}

Eugenics, Transhumanism, and Artificial Intelligence

_{If we were to succeed at creating an ethical decision-making AI, whose ethics would it abide by?} _{J.R. Miller
January 13, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Transhumanism}

In his article for the Digital Journal, Saratendu Sethi argues that to build a sustainable global supply chain requires the humanization of AI. This technological revolution, he says, includes “truly autonomous and self-correcting supply chains” that will replace the flawed capital-driven decision making of humans. Sethi defines this utilitarian mission of serving the “greater good” through what he calls a “sustainable, ethical and responsible world that puts equity for all at the center.” His motive of helping everyone while protecting the environment is commendable, yet the larger question remains, whose ethic will drive the logic used by this AI? When resources are limited, how will this AI decide who gets food and who gets medicine? Based on my own study, Sethi’s Read More ›

Neon night in a futuristic city. Photorealistic 3D illustration. Wallpaper in a cyberpunk style. Empty street with neon lights reflecting in a water. Beautiful night cityscape. Grunge urban landscape.

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J.R. Miller
Date
January 1, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism

Tagged
transhumanism}

With Transhumanism, What Happens to Human Rights?

_{The transhumanist accepts suffering for the individual if suffering can advance the evolution of the species toward immortality and singularity} _{J.R. Miller
January 1, 2022

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Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism}

The 2018 Netflix series, Altered Carbon, depicts a future society where people hope to live forever by digitizing their consciousness and storing it in a “cortical stack.” This technological marvel is then inserted into any number of interchangeable bodies when the old “sleve” dies. But what you and I may watch for entertainment is for many scientists, philosophers, and theologians a life’s mission. This dream of life without end through technology is called transhumanism. Transhumanism (Humanity+ or hereafter H+) is a 20th– century endeavor grounded in rational humanism that trusts technological advances to answer two key questions of human existence: “What does it mean to be human?” and “What is the future of humanity?” For the transhumanist, these two questions Read More ›

Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism - illustration

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News
Date
July 7, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Technocracy, Transhumanism

Tagged
2084 (book), Featured, John Lennox, New Soviet Man, transhumanism}

John Lennox: Transhumanism Is Not a New Idea

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July 7, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Technocracy, Transhumanism}

In his just-published book, 2084, Oxford mathematician John Lennox points out that, in the 20th century, both the Communists and the Nazis had attempted transhumanist projects. For example, In the former Soviet Union, attempts were made to use science to create a “New Man.” In 1924, Leon Trotsky wrote: “Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to create a higher social biologic type, or, if you please, a superman.” What that program of eugenics involved is explained by historian Andrey Zubov as cited by Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Social Media, Technocracy, Transhumanism

Tagged
Cyborgs, transhumanism}

Is Transhumanism Uncomfortably Tempting?

_{An ethicist asks us to stop and reflect} _{Denyse O'Leary
February 16, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Social Media, Technocracy, Transhumanism}

Jacob Schatzer identifies three issues in the essay, “The Allure of Transhumanism,” that might prompt some queasy recognitions in all of us, at times.

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 27, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Programming, Transhumanism

Tagged
Ray Kurzweil, transhumanism}

2019 AI Hype Countdown #5: Transhumanism never grows old

_{The idea that we can upload our brains to computers to avoid death shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the differences between types of thinking} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 27, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Programming, Transhumanism}

Computers are very effective but they operate with a very limited set of causal abilities. Humans work from an entirely different set of causal abilities. Uploading your brain to a computer is not a question of technology. It can’t work in principle.

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News
Date
November 19, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Transhumanism

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___longform, Featured, Michael Graziano, Ray Kurzweil, Silicon Valley, transhumanism}

Transhumanism—Is It a Dangerous Idea?

_{Some Silicon Valley greats hope to merge with machines to live forever. But what then?} _{News
November 19, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion, Transhumanism}

The late philosopher Jerry Fodor (1935—2017) said that the reason “we’re all materialists” is that the alternatives seem even worse. Transhumanism, had he lived to see it develop, would give him pause for further reflection.

Eyeball with ring light reflection in pupil

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 8, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Religion, Technocracy, Transhumanism

Tagged
Human exceptionalism, Peter Clarke, transhumanism}

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement’

_{Transhumanists don’t seem much interested in such real improvements in the human condition. They want quick, easy technological fixes} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2019

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Ethics, Religion, Technocracy, Transhumanism}

The transhumanist movement swoons over increasing intelligence. If I had to choose between increasing the intelligence of the human race versus enhancing our capacity to love, the human race would be far better off embracing the latter than the former. There is no brain implant for that.