Google Trends - Web Search interest: transhumanism - Worldwide, 2004 - present. Transhumanism. TRANSHUMAN - Do you want to live forever? (full documentary film) Transhumanism debunked: Why drinking the Kurzweil Kool-Aid will only make you dead, not immortal. Transhumanism debunked: Why drinking the Kurzweil. In this article, I'm going to reveal how transhumanism is a dangerous, irrational death cult shrouded in the language of geeky cybernetics. In fact, the entire idea that you can "upload your mind to a computer" is complete junk science quackery, as you'll soon see. In case you're new to the term, "transhumanism" means uploading your mind to a machine, discarding your body, then achieving immortality by living forever through machines and robots. Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has been pushing this cult for many years, and just recently he promised that by 2045, humanity would achieve what he calls the "singularity," where our minds can be uploaded to computers.
(Click here for the source of this claim.) In less than a century, Kurzweil says, we could all discard our "fragile" human bodies and inhabit advanced robotic systems as our new immortal selves. Where to even begin the debunking of it all? How would transhumanism even work? But wait a second. What are YOU? » Transhumanism debunked: Why drinking the Kurzweil Kool-Aid will only make you dead, not immortal Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! » The Dark Side of Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanist Utopia Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Transhumanism, Technology, and Science: To Say It’s Impossible is to Mock History Itself. One of the most common arguments made against Transhumanism, Technoprogressivism and the transformative potentials of emerging, converging, disruptive and transformative technologies may also be the weakest: technical infeasibility. While some thinkers attack the veracity of Transhumanist claims on moral grounds, arguing that we are committing a transgression against human dignity (in turn often based on ontological grounds of a static human nature that shan't be tampered with) or on grounds of safety, arguing that humanity isn't responsible enough to wield such technologies without unleashing their destructive capabilities, these categories of counter-argument (ethicacy and safety, respectively) are more often than not made by people somewhat more familiar with the community and its common points of rhetoric.
In other words these are the real salient and significant problems needing to be addressed by Transhumanist and Technoprogressive communities. Simply look around you. References. Timothy Leary — transhumanism with a SMI2LE. Most people know Timothy Leary as the “LSD guru” who encouraged people to “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” in the 1960s. But a surprising number of transhumanist types don’t know that he was one of them. In fact, Leary may have been the first to signal a memeplex for the transhuman future — SMI2LE (Space Migration Intelligence Increase and Life Extension) — back in the mid-1970s. My new book, Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time, explores Leary’s life and philosophies, including his transhuman explorations. Here’s an excerpt from the book. You can read the entire electronic version free here, or buy a print version. 1976–1996 — Transhumanism with a SMI2LELeary emerged from prison in 1976 as one of the advocates for advances in the human condition that would soon be called transhumanism.
H+ Magazine | Why Transhumanism should be the Norm - h+ Magazine. When thinking about whether to publicly identify as “transhumanist”, “techno-progressive” or some other label in my work, it occurred to me that the idea of being a transhumanist would need clarification for any people who might view it as an unnecessary imposition. Why should they accept this “ism” rather than the many other “isms” floating around? Or should they add this “ism” to other “isms” they have included in their pallet? This leads me to the discussion in this article. Transhumanism, in spite of the “ism”, shouldn’t really be taken as an ideology, even though it could be posited as being an ideology. Should I consider it radical or strange of me to take a transhumanist stance in a mainstream publication, or a publication where the transhumanist approach is not well known? However, transhumanism isn’t a novelty at all, because it is itself fundamental to being human.
Transhumanism ought to be seen as the norm, not the exception. H+ Magazine | 4 Ways Google Glass Makes Us Transhuman - h+ Magazine. Transhumanism is all about the creative and ethical use of technology to better the human condition. Futurists, when discussing topics related to transhumanism, tend to look at nano-tech, bio-mechanical augmentation and related technology that, for the most part, is beyond the comprehension of lay-people. If Transhumanism as a movement is to succeed, we have to explain it’s goals and benefits to humanity by addressing the common-man. After all, transhumanism is not the exclusive domain, nor restricted to the literati, academia or the rich. The more the common man realizes that (s)he is indeed already transhuman in a way – the lesser the taboo associated with the movement and the faster the law of accelerating returns will kick in, leading to eventual Tech Singularity.
Augmented Reality Visors: Enabling Transhumanism. At the moment, Google Glass is not exactly within reach of the common man, even if he want’s to pay for it. Google Glass: A Transhumanist’s Swiss Knife Augmented Human Memory: Secrets of the Transhumanist Agenda Revealed at 2013 Conference. Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism June 18, 2013 Dmitry Itskov spoke at the Global Future 2045 Conference (GF2045) wherein he said that he would like to see technology developed that would allow human consciousness to be inputted into artificial computer neuro-brains and hologram bodies. In 2020 Itskov envisions human brains being controlled by remote robots. By 2025, there could be human consciousness “transplanted” into a robotic body which would replace the flawed physical bodies we now use. The end goal for Itskov would be artificial brains controlling holographic bodies in 2045.
Referred to as neo-humanity, Istkov has begun his own political party in Russia called Evolution 2045. Itskov said: “We shouldn’t just observe the wonderful entrepreneurs — we need to move ahead systematically. Itskov wants to align his vision with governments and create a movement within the UN to promote a common goal of merging man with machine. Dr. Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US... Transhumanism’s “Futurama” Future. Man of the Future - Alex Mar. Discussed: Patient A-1261, The Holy See of Cryonics, Impressive Human Specimens, Girls, Girls, Girls, Leonine Chest Hair, Optimism One, Piss Pots, Nature at Its Most Natural, Messengers of Doom, Linkups, A Global Network of Communes, Rootedness, The Society for the Investigation of Recurring Events, Brain Containers On July 8, 2000, a man was loaded into an ambulance, packed in with dozens of Ziploc bags of ice cubes, and rushed onto the long flight from New York City to Scottsdale, Arizona.
Several hours earlier, he’d been pronounced clinically dead, but on the ground a team of technicians had rallied around his cancer-riddled cadaver with great optimism. At the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, they laid out the body—now patient A-1261—on an operating table encased in a coffin-shaped Plexiglas box. To keep the temperature down, the technicians pumped the box full of hyper-cold nitrogen gas, maintaining A-1261 in what they believed to be a liminal state—on pause. That New Time Transhumanism Religion | National Review Online. That New Time Transhumanism Religion Text In my biweekly First Things column, I point out the decidedly religious characteristics of transhumanism.
From, “The Materialists’ Rapture:” Transhumanism is becoming the world’s newest religion, offering adherents the kind of hope once within the exclusive province of faith—and without the humbling concept of an omnipotent God to whom one owes prayer and thanksgiving. No need for divine forgiveness. No karmic debts to be paid by reincarnation. No need to believe in any reality beyond the strictly material universe. I note, for example, that the transhumanist Singularity is much like the Christian concept of Rapture. But more fundamentally, transhumanism offers a materialistic replacement for the psychic damage caused when religious belief is lost or evaporates. Transhumanism has terrible problems with its ethics.
What do Transhumanism and Marxism Have in Common? | National Review Online. Scientism is often conflated with science, either explicitly, or implicitly by scientism ideologues masking as objective science commentators. But the two are mirror opposites: Science is a method of objectively obtaining and applying material facts and information. The former espouses a subjective world view using the pretense that science has the capacity to tell us right from wrong, the ethical from the unethical, best from worst, etc. Or to put it another way, scientism is the pilot fish and science is the shark. Over at the Weekly Standard, Peter Augustine Lawler has a good article on scientism vs. the humanities. Along the way, he notes that both Marxism and transhumanism are examples of scientism. Scientism is a comprehensive, one-dimensional explanatory scheme of all that exists. I would add a few additional commonalities to the nexus: Both are utterly materialistic.
I don’t believe that transhumanists will ever create a truly post human species. How can Transhumanism Win? | Maria Konovalenko. Working at the Science for Life Extension Foundation we understood several things regarding tranhumanism and what needs to be done for promoting it. 1. The topics of horror of death and despair of aging are poorly exposed in tranhumanist rhetoric. In the 14th century, in the plague times, death used to be one of the main topics of visual arts. Nowadays the topic of horror of death struggles its way to the surface only on cigarette packs in a few countries of the world. There is an unspoken ban on documentary demonstration of the moment of human death. Death itself is often embellished, heroized and named necessary for triving of other people.
We claim that there is nothing more dreadful than death, and our main goal is to fight it. We understood that one of the most powerful impact tools are not the rational arguments, but visual images. 2. 3. For example, biology background is needed to truly understand the possibility to extend lifespan using genetic regulation. 4. 5. Like this: What are some of the main problems with tranhumanism? : transhumanism. The Magus of Silicon Valley: Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism as Contemporary Esotericism | Egil Asprem. 2. What is Transhumanism? Transhumanism is a radically utopian movement, concerned withthe development and application of human enhancementtechnologies.
The baseline assumption is that humanity has thepower to transcend its biological limitations, and that suchtranscendence is desirable, or even necessary for long-termsurvival. The tools for overcoming biology and reaching our truepotential are found in the gamut of recent and emergingtechnologies, from biotechnology and medical research, tonanotechnology and artificial intelligence. The unbounded use of such technologies is considered the road to total freedom, promisingto make us a species of immortal, omniscient, space-travellingdemigods.Although a number of historical precursors could bementioned, transhumanism came to its own as a movement in thelate 1980s.
And, while it has contributors and followers in a numberof countries, the transhumanist movement’s centre of gravity isundeniably located in Silicon Valley. Th (1998; now. Bilderberg Group’s Transhumanist Corporate Communism. Bilderberg 2013 will meet at the Grove Hotel in Watford, UK By: Jay The elusive, secretive Bilderberger Group is set to meet this week in Watford, England with plans to reportedly hand the “baton” of leadership on to Google.
I recall back in 1999 first reading about the Bilderberg Group on an obscure conspiracy site now long gone. At that time, if you mentioned the Bilderberg Group or other leftist elite combines, you were considered insane. Indeed, even a few years ago, major news and so-called “conservative” news refused to mention Bilderberg, with neo-con talkmongers cowering to what they falsely consider capitalism. While it may be considered a good sign that Bilderberg is now appearing in mainstream news due to sites like Drudge and Infowars forcing the elite entity into public view, Bilderberg is still able to hide behind a mask of so-called capitalism. The reason Bilderberg matters is that it is a great example of the shadow government’s existence. Estulin’s Bilderberg book.