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What is Transhumanism and why do Christians Not Like It?

mkknyr says...

>> ^enoch:
the ideology of man expanding past his mortal coil and perhaps reaching something far greater.maybe even eventually reaching a point to touch and commune with god,is not a new ideology.
it is perhaps the oldest.


Yes, you're right. This is why the transhumanist movement should do its best to be inclusive to spiritual traditions outside of secular humanism. There is much inspiration as well as understanding to be derived from mystical texts and traditions. There even exists a whole school of evolutionary posthumanism that predates the rise of integrated circuits. Writers and spiritualists such as Sri Aurobindo were considering the implications of the next stage in consciousness before Gordon Moore was even born. Therefore, transhumanists should not be presentists when considering the value of spirituality in the discourse over the future of humanity.

More than a transhumanist, I consider myself a Cosmist. The Cosmist perspective comes from the notion that the end of the Universe is the only limit for Consciousness.

What is Transhumanism and why do Christians Not Like It?

mkknyr says...

>> ^braindonut:
^ But I don't know that it makes sense to single out humanity, when considering the massive nature of such a system one would be talking about.


The reason why it makes sense to single out humanity, as Chardin focuses on in his book The Phenomenon of Man, is because humanity is the point where evolution becomes self-aware, where evolution extends beyond biology and into thought or consciousness, as evidenced by the accelerating cultural and technological developments in culture and civilization. Humanity is a critical stage of evolution that signifies the transition from a genetic-based system to a consciousness-based system: the posthuman.

Also, the reason I used the word redeem was to sort of tie some Christian verbiage into the explanation. Transhumanism recognizes that the human being is an evolutionary work-in-progress, that many of its shortcomings -- both physical and moral -- are due to outdated biological forms that dictate our behavior and our mortality. Perhaps a more precise word would be "rescue" or "save".

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