7 conditions for attaining Transhumanism

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There are a lot of threats to human dignity out there but this is definitely the most dangerous. Does anyone know if the Church has addressed the issue of transhumanism yet?
 
Don’t know if the Catholic Church has officially or not. Humana Vitae and Donum Vitae of course are against the whole spirit of Transhumanism. doesn’t even seem to be on the radar screen of most Protestant groups, with a few rare exceptions.
 
Let em dream their fantasies; but it wont happen. Some of that was featured in SF stories in the 1950s and 1960s. Remember the Mekon? 😃 (almost the right colour)
Omni SF mag had cyborgs…
What sexual attraction would dating couples get out of it? :confused:
 
Oh yes I used to read Omni-years ago.
I wish it were all wishful thinking but I think a lot of it is closer to being implemented than we might think. I find this manifesto to be against human dignity, anti-family and anti-religeon. Read through some of the comments, some of them are chilling. They seem to be especially intolerant of those that disagree with their vision.
conditon #5 really bothers me.
 
Either way I’m not afraid of this.

My feeling is that God probably wouldn’t allow something like this to happen unless He was ok with it. Even if He didn’t like it, He wouldn’t allow it to destroy His ultimate plan.

And I see a couple different angles for a theological tie-in:

1.Some form of Hell (or lengthy Purgatory) scenario: transferring your mind to a cloud which can be “downloaded” into anything you choose causes you to be stuck on this side of of the life/death/eternity divide, thus keeping you from God until the mind can be freed from said cloud. Of course, this doesn’t fully work as an absolute Hell (where God is not present), because the subatomic particles and waves that would most likely comprise your mind would still be part of God’s hold…but you could be blocked from the fullness of experiencing Him for a terribly long time and things could become very very cold.
  1. Heaven: Since we don’t understand the nature of the spiritual/physical relationship, nor the functional mechanisms of so much of what we believe God does or has in store for us…
    Is it within the realm of possibility that maybe this is a tiny imperfectly understood piece of how He will bring about the new Heaven/Earth merger and our new-improved bodies?
Just because we can’t fully grasp or observe the connection between spiritual/physical realms, a real connection must exist if the effect of spirits on creation is real. We know energy never vanishes, it just changes form, so possibly all other souls will have a chance to be reunited to the physical world via what we today crudely understand as energy waves, etc.

I’ve always believed the more God’s creation is discovered, the more of God is discovered, and He allows His children the totally unnecessary and beautifully heartfelt privilege of having a role in His discovery and our salvation.

If it is truly a path to eternal life, God is behind it. If it is artificial, then its merely a delay, and God will allow it to ultimately bring us closer to Him. Otherwise, if God doesn’t allow it, no problem.

That’s my view at least.
 
is it possible God’s involved though?
Either way I’m not afraid of this.

My feeling is that God probably wouldn’t allow something like this to happen unless He was ok with it. Even if He didn’t like it, He wouldn’t allow it to destroy His ultimate plan.

And I see a couple different angles for a theological tie-in:

1.Some form of Hell (or lengthy Purgatory) scenario: transferring your mind to a cloud which can be “downloaded” into anything you choose causes you to be stuck on this side of of the life/death/eternity divide, thus keeping you from God until the mind can be freed from said cloud. Of course, this doesn’t fully work as an absolute Hell (where God is not present), because the subatomic particles and waves that would most likely comprise your mind would still be part of God’s hold…but you could be blocked from the fullness of experiencing Him for a terribly long time and things could become very very cold.
  1. Heaven: Since we don’t understand the nature of the spiritual/physical relationship, nor the functional mechanisms of so much of what we believe God does or has in store for us…
    Is it within the realm of possibility that maybe this is a tiny imperfectly understood piece of how He will bring about the new Heaven/Earth merger and our new-improved bodies?
Just because we can’t fully grasp or observe the connection between spiritual/physical realms, a real connection must exist if the effect of spirits on creation is real. We know energy never vanishes, it just changes form, so possibly all other souls will have a chance to be reunited to the physical world via what we today crudely understand as energy waves, etc.

I’ve always believed the more God’s creation is discovered, the more of God is discovered, and He allows His children the totally unnecessary and beautifully heartfelt privilege of having a role in His discovery and our salvation.

If it is truly a path to eternal life, God is behind it. If it is artificial, then its merely a delay, and God will allow it to ultimately bring us closer to Him. Otherwise, if God doesn’t allow it, no problem.

That’s my view at least.
 
Transhumanism isn’t too new, its similar to Nietzsche’s Overman.
 
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