Enhancement and the secularised philosophy of transhumanism

Dr Denis Alexander explores enhancement and the secularised philosophy of transhumanism.

For more on this subject, watch out for Dr Alexander's forthcoming Cambridge Paper, which will be available at http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources.php?catID=1

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• transhumanists
• post-humans
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• digitised
• immortality
• secularised
• theology
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• substrate-independence
• sin
• biology
• Christ
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[GodMarley666]

Why is he stick religion into this subject for

[FurudeJinja]

I want to be immortal.

[Blacklemon67a]

@FurudeJinja props bro, thinking forever :D

[Clarkofkrypton]

i want to have superhuman abilities & to be immortal

[evgeniy13]

Would it be christian to help transhumanism? Greater bunch of transhumanists are atheists. or at least agnostics. Let's pretend that there is God, and all those people are going to hell for non-believing. Is not it better, if they would stay on Earth or travel into space or live in a digital world? Or it would be better for them to suffer in hell till the last day?

[Elluem]

Yes, here's a valuable lesson. Don't waste your time worshiping or fighting over or for things that were created and propagated only to give some group of humans more power and control.

[coupcoupTV]

Look, I believe in materialist science, too. I believe that the brain can be reverse engineered to create synthetic consciousness. If I believed in metaphysics, that would be impossible. I'm just trying to say that transhumanism would do well to be inclusive in their rhetoric, acknowledging the lessons learned from and values shared with spiritual traditions.

[coupcoupTV]

I did not intend to imply that evolution carried any supernatural properties. I used force in the strictest sense of the word: a powerful effect or influence, a guiding paradigm. Systems have inherent transformational power, to which the word force can easily apply.

[Adlershof]

I don't think that "the evolutionary force of the universe" is a spooky "force", as you put it, just as I don't believe in god and just as I don't think gravity has any metaphysic properties. Transhumanism is not a religion or a spooky metaphysic system, it is base in materialist science. If you want to believe in spooky forces of the universe go ahead, but that is not transhumanism