Catholic transhumanism

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Just curious about people’s views on a Catholic transhumanism. How would it look? When will it happen? Tielhard de Chardin and Tipler both helped define some of the themes behind transhumanism with the idea of point omega for example. So what do you think?
 
Wyrd said:
Just curious about people’s views on a Catholic transhumanism. How would it look? When will it happen? Tielhard de Chardin and Tipler both helped define some of the themes behind transhumanism with the idea of point omega for example. So what do you think?
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Given that the philosophers who run the Church seem to be in love with nature as nature, methinks that any transhuman project that involved changing of the body would be opposed.

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Anything that tempts people to pride, that would tempt them to think of themselves as gods, ought to be opposed.

If, somehow, in some non-trivial non-sophistic way, a way filled with true humility, transhumanism would lead people to God and help them acknowledge His greater glory, then perhaps it would be embraced. I have to say that I don’t know what that would be though.

Honestly, I think the former (pride) seems much more likely to occur than the latter (acknowledgement of God’s glory and mercy).

The church would probably say at this time that the best way of getting to God has already been provided: prayer and sacraments.

Finally, if an attempt at transhumanism led to botched experiments filled with needless suffering, I think that would probably end up being rejected by the church too.

Admirable is the name of God.
 
GEddie said:
Given that the philosophers who run the Church seem to be in love with nature as nature, methinks that any transhuman project that involved changing of the body would be opposed.

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Isn’t technology a part of nature?
 
Pat_Albertson said:
Anything that tempts people to pride, that would tempt them to think of themselves as gods, ought to be opposed.

If, somehow, in some non-trivial non-sophistic way, a way filled with true humility, transhumanism would lead people to God and help them acknowledge His greater glory, then perhaps it would be embraced. I have to say that I don’t know what that would be though.

Honestly, I think the former (pride) seems much more likely to occur than the latter (acknowledgement of God’s glory and mercy).

The church would probably say at this time that the best way of getting to God has already been provided: prayer and sacraments.

Finally, if an attempt at transhumanism led to botched experiments filled with needless suffering, I think that would probably end up being rejected by the church too.

Admirable is the name of God.
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Death will fully humble each and every one of us soon enough. Leave us some pride!

IMNAAHO

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St_Francis said:
Technology is the result of human actions and can thus be judged as to morality.
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I’m not sure what delineation you’re drawing here, but it sounds interesting. Care to share more?

I think sometimes the lines are very blurry, especially in the emerging fields of synthetic biology. For example, are you familiar with CRISPR and how gene editing techniques could be used to create “living” technology? If I were to create something with this technology you may not be able to distinguish it from a normal, plant, microbe, etc but these are likely going to play a large role in the future of the economy such as in synthesizing medicines or petroleum, cleaning up oil spills, radiation, and arsenic, etc.
 
+JMJ+

Ah, it is to go beyond being what being human is physically and other things, I missed that.

Well in that case…that would be very hard to imagine or picture. At the very most it has to be on the somatic genetic level, not reaching the hereditary genetic level considering how much the Church opposes tinkering with the beginning of life. That’s the deepest I would wager that the Church might allow and even then it would be iffy, in that the reason must be grave enough.
 
Interesting topic, the other day I saw a headline in a news feed entitled “Britain legalizes Nephilim resurrection plan” This was from 2008!! You can Google this to see the results.

I did not read the entire article, but it basically stated the UK, it is now legal to experiment and try to create human-animal hybrids, they claimed this was going to be good for fighting genetic disorders, diseases, etc.
 
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