 I'm just a regular guy that is a theologian with a small t. And that's kind of like all of us, right? We're all theologians of some sort. And in my spiritual quest, I have come to Christian transhumanism. And with Christian transhumanism, I would say that I pretty much alienated everybody. Yeah, but that's OK, because I think it's a good place to be if you want to be original, right? The main sticking point is faith and works. With most of my buddies that are Christians, they think that it's only by faith that we're saved. And then on the other hand, you got transhumanism, where it looks like it's only by our works. But I see it in my world view as being a combination of both, that it takes faith and works. Have you ever heard of H+, H+, is the transhumanist logo? This is the one I wanted to submit. But I, again, got shot down for that. As you can see here, it's humanity raised to a higher power. And that's in combination of faith and works, where I believe that this is happening. Because I really think that what is happening when you just deal with faith alone is that you lose the spirit of humanity. You lose the spirit and a categorization of the spirit. I'd consider the Holy Spirit, the one that concentrates on growth and understanding, connections, and love. Now, I don't want to go right here, right yet. I think I want to go to the very last slide. Let's see, end. Because here's all my slides, so I'm going to just go to end this way. OK, I want to go to this slide right here, just to get it to kind of a abstract of where we're going with Christian transhumanism. Now, this is not a space-time diagram, but an information-time diagram. And with an information-time diagram, I'm looking at a creation. I am looking at chaos. And then I'm looking at a cognitive process and a growth of understanding. And then as we have already, Mr. Givens has said before, a theosis or a growing back, a gathering up, or ascension back to a singular point. And in Christian transhumanism, some people talk about the singularity. Is everybody familiar with the singularity and what that is? OK, well, the singularity would be this center section right here. And then that center section, I say, is a universal. It's a universal section or a state of being, the ultimate perfected state of being that is the same whether or not it's an alien from another planet or it's another universe completely that there is this one state that we describe as, well, I describe as Christ. It's all knowing. It's all creative. It's a creative power. Now, that power right here in this diagram, it's not a space-time diagram, as I said. It's an information-time diagram. And let's go from this point. And let's think about the Nicene Creed, where in the Nicene Creed, they say that all things in heaven and earth are created through Christ. All right, now then put that with a big bang theory. And with a big bang theory, you have what we know as just basically a creation of information. And the reason I use information here instead of energy is because I want to lean from here on out on digital physics. I want to lean on the fact that many of our current scientists today believe that our reality, the material universe, is at its heart information. And there are very many well-respected scientists that believe that. It's the current thought as far as our ground of being. So let's take that on out. And let's say from here you have basically a chaos. And then you have a condensation into matter. And then from matter, this shifts off to where finally life emerges on the scene. And when life emerges on the scene, then there is a sort of cognitive process that's going on that I like to call a growth in understanding. Now this growth in understanding is at its highest pinnacle when we get to the quality of love. And to love something, you've got to know it. And to know something completely, you have to love it. Does anybody know who said that? It was Aldous Huxley in his book called The Perennial Philosophy. He did an anthology of all the great religions. And he said, what we can just basically boil love down to is we can boil it down to a cognitive process where at its peak is love. So that has a definite Christian flavor, I'd like to say with that. And I'll talk about it. I'll lead up to that. Now here you would say, well, this is life making this turn back in right here. And as a tourist, I hope you guys have already seen that this topographic really is a tourist, right? With a closed, infinitely small circle right here. At this point down here, it looks like we need some batteries for this laser because it's dying out. But at this point right up here, we get to what you might call our current society. In our current society, we have cognitive evolution going on. We have, actually, I would call it a conscious evolution going on where we're able to start to take control of our own evolution. And now we get back to what the Bible would say about this section right here, this lighter blue section that's gathering back up. Remember, this was from the Nicene Creed where they would say all things are created through Jesus Christ. On this end right here, we're being gathered back up. And there's many parts in the scriptures that talk about being gathered back up into Christ. I think it's Ephesians 1, 111. It's one that I like to lean on there. And with that there, you get into Mr. Given's theosis, where we are growing by faith and works back to the singular point where we all participate because we are all going to experience the same sensation, the same feeling. So this is information. This isn't matter. Information we're going to learn if I got enough time here is disembodied. It's a, it has actually got an external nature. And I can go into some papers by MIT physicists that say, hey, you know what? We've gone as far as we can go in physics. And we know that there's external realities. They talk about mathematics being a, mathematics as being eternal, universal. Always there regardless, right? So that's what we're talking about here. Not material, but more of like an external reality and a process that's taking place. I think you could overlay process theology pretty well with that. So here we get back to our first slide. Now let's build into this. And we'll build into it by what I put in my paper was that Christianity is the religion of the logos. It's the faith in the creator's spirit. And you might be surprised to know who said that. It was the Pope about two or three months ago. He said that Christianity is a religion of the logos and the faith in the creator's spirit, the Holy Spirit, the spirit that looks at valuing life, enjoying life, and wanting to create more, OK? So what is this thing, logos? Logos has an ancient meaning. And it has a more contemporary meaning that it is word or reason. They identified it with the animating principle of the universe. You take it back to the platonics. And even with the perennial philosophy, it's the divine ground of being. So the world, is it created from word? Well, what does the Bible have to say about that? It says that in the beginning, the world was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him, all things were made. Without him, nothing was made that has not been made. And the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, OK? Disembodied information coming from an external reality which physics seems to be supporting, OK? And then over here, I just wanted to show you a space-time hypersphere, or a space-time diagram, I should say, where you could say that space is a two-dimensional slice right here, and time is that third dimension in this drawing from the Big Bang on out through what we know as far as expansion is concerned. External reality would be here, and internal reality is inside here. And I'll try to use that as a theme so that we can start to embody it. Another thing that Christianity says, especially the early church fathers, is that we become participators in Christ. This is why I can be a Christian transhumanist, is because there are plenty of places in the Bible that say we can be participators in this singular state of being. It's just a singular state of being, OK? It's hard to reach, but it could be reached. That's our hope, that's our faith, OK? We participate in this divine. And how do we do it? By spiritual growth, increasing in knowledge and understanding the word of God, decreasing your frequency of severity of sin, increasing your practice in qualities like Christ-like qualities, and your faith and trust in God. And I got this from allaboutgod.com. That's spiritual growth. That's the works. Now, the reason I'm here is because of this controversial idea that there's a Christian transhumanism way of looking at this world, OK? And this Christian transhumanism look at this world is to describe what is transhumanism. How much do I need to spin on this slide? Is there anybody that doesn't know what transhumanism is as far as it supports science and technological application to mental and physical characteristics, try to reduce disability, suffering and death, use technology as much as possible, and then transform themselves into posthumans? So there's the philosophy of transhumanism and posthumanism. Posthumanism would be that evolutionary next step, OK? So I'm going to take us to the simulation argument next because the simulation argument is a contemporary argument that they say is probably one of the best arguments for God that there is nowadays. And I'd like to start with looking at this graph that I think Mr. Hughes probably knows quite a bit of everybody's seen it all over the internet and anybody that's been researching transhumanism knows that one of the things that we have as a source of pride for man is on this scale right here we have millions of information processes per second, OK? So what that means is how fast the machine is actually processing over our lifetimes basically, well from the 1900 actually I guess here to 2010 and then goes to 2050 and it shows a continual increase and in this case it's a logarithmic scale so you see that linear increase? Do I sound like Kurtzwell? OK, well I don't want to too much but that's where we are right now. Now at this point right here there's a lot of doubt and there's a lot of faith in the transhumanist community that somehow or another we can bust past the limitations that are coming up with computational computer type advancements because of the heat problem because of software problems and one thing or another that we won't be able to continue this trend on out to actually be able to get to human intelligence. Well there's in the last week or so there's been some news that's come out because it seems that something always crops up that supports man, that gives us more hope and the most recent is quantum computing where they would use qubits, not just binary bits but qubits that you would tap into the very quantum state of an atom of an electron and from that be able to store four times, eight times as much information depending upon the quantum states that they would tap into and with this they're talking about here in the next five years being able to surpass the computational capabilities of our current day computers, okay? There's hope even in the transhumanist, there's faith and hope with transhumanist, right? And I put a lot of hope into this right now because it's gotten to the point where there's a lot of naysayers that lean on this trend of just binary computation and saying you'll never get there from here. Quantum computing, we will be able to get there from here because quantum computers do a timeless calculation, okay? Now this gets more into the Holy Spirit aspects right here where I put this overlay in that I think the best hope for humanity is to hitch a ride on the computer processing and in the last couple of weeks they've been talking about this new term called co-processing, brain co-processing, augmenting our ability to sense things, our memory, our just basically cognitive process with co-processors, okay? And at first where would they apply this? They're first applying it to how are we doing for time? Okay, we're good. We would be able to, they're gonna apply this mostly to people with epilepsy where they would have a sensor that would see that you're getting ready to have an epileptic fit. There would be a processor along that and then an input. So it's an input-output type of thing. It's part of you, okay? So I said we'd like to look at more of this digital physics and this disembodied information as being the ground of being that physicists are coming up to. Digital philosophy and digital physics are the current state of affairs with many of our leading physicists and scientists. And at the end of this, if you'd like to see it, I've got a list of some very impressive scientists that say that at the physical processes of nature or forms of computation and the processing is the most fundamental level of reality. Biology reduces to chemistry, which reduces to physics, which reduces to computational comp, well, let me say that, computational information. Okay, all changes in physical nature are consequences of digital information processes. Okay, that's digital physics. Now, given what we saw with the trends of computers, given what we've seen with coprocessing that's been going on, let's talk about Mr. Bostrom, Mr. Nick Bostrom and his simulation argument. Okay, I've thrown this in here because it's a controversial thing, but it's worth talking about because it's interesting and it could fit into this Christian transhumanism. What it's saying is that we, given a few assumptions that if you look at the fact that we are actually going to enter a post-human phase, let's assume that, let's also assume that we will continue to play Sim City, that we'll continue to model, like in my case, nuclear power plant operation, or one thing or another, that we would actually grow to the point where we could simulate whole universes. Does that sound outrageous? At this moment, millions of people are running simulations. Is that likely to stop in our post-human phase or will there be a chance that, I talked to a few guys earlier today, that there's maybe a 20% chance that we're living in a simulation now, that there's an external reality, there was a creator and that that creator is watching us do what we're doing here. To what ends? Well, that's my theology with a small t. And I'll come up to that in a second, I hope. Okay, so here, just to show you the plausibility of this and that it is actually not only plausible, but it's coherent and that it fits with our reality as we know it today. So it is not too far out there. Here's a simulation of evolved galaxies that we are doing. Okay, right here is the noise of the fundamental constants of nature and this internal reality that was generated and by the Max Planck Society in Germany. And let's go ahead and bring that little dot right there, make it a little bit bigger, make it a little bit bigger, make it a little bit bigger and the Millennium Run has simulated a galaxy, okay? Now with this, what we're talking about is just the matter and that, okay? And so from here on, I have to just basically flip through the slides here real quick and give me about what, just five minutes maybe? Less than that, okay? Here's a blue brain project. Here I am running a external reality, in my external reality, running a simulation at the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant. Here I am now in that and I see that I can create minor miracles for these guys at this nuclear power plant. There's my shiny head over in the corner. There's the power plant as a whole. And from there, I see that there's really a good argument for a creation, a creator, an external reality and miracles, that there can be miracles. And I guess I'll just go ahead and leave it there. So thank you very much.