Transhumanist Beliefs
A Transhumanist is someone who believes in the following trends will continue into the future:
The understanding of the human brain will improve and simulations will be practical and working by
2019. Such simulations will be expensive.
Smaller machines which can replicate human intelligence will exist and be inexpensive by 2029.
It is obvious but infrequently stated that this will cause the extinction of about 8 billion unmodified
humans simply due to the obvious obsolescence of both the human and therefore their concepts of
ethics and morality. The exact means by which these humans will 'disappear' will be decided by the
superior intelligence which will be making such decisions and more capable than humans are at thinking
through such matters. What did the humans do with the Neanderthals? What happened to Neanderthal
ethics and morality?
For the most part, human beings are not capable of picturing a world in which human beings and human
institutions are not in control. The concept of intelligent humans lining up in cars on highways each
morning to crawl into the cities to "work" is apparently so attractive that many humans cannot picture a
world without such rituals. The inability to picture what these humans will do when the concept of
commuting becomes obsolete is bothersome.
Older Transhumanists believe in freezing their brains so that sometime after 2100 their brains may be
defrosted or scanned and they can be brought back to "life" by the robots which will be in charge by
then. These Transhumanists will then continue their pontificating about the future and warn about
Global Warming. This is similar to the notion of humans bringing back Neanderthals and asking them
the "meaning of life".
Younger Transhumanists believe that they may well live to 1000 years of age if, of course, they can find
a way of avoiding their being made obsolete by robots.
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A Transhumanist is someone who believes in the following trends will continue into the future:
The understanding of the human brain will improve and simulations will be practical and working by
2019. Such simulations will be expensive.
Smaller machines which can replicate human intelligence will exist and be inexpensive by 2029.
It is obvious but infrequently stated that this will cause the extinction of about 8 billion unmodified
humans simply due to the obvious obsolescence of both the human and therefore their concepts of
ethics and morality. The exact means by which these humans will 'disappear' will be decided by the
superior intelligence which will be making such decisions and more capable than humans are at thinking
through such matters. What did the humans do with the Neanderthals? What happened to Neanderthal
ethics and morality?
For the most part, human beings are not capable of picturing a world in which human beings and human
institutions are not in control. The concept of intelligent humans lining up in cars on highways each
morning to crawl into the cities to "work" is apparently so attractive that many humans cannot picture a
world without such rituals. The inability to picture what these humans will do when the concept of
commuting becomes obsolete is bothersome.
Older Transhumanists believe in freezing their brains so that sometime after 2100 their brains may be
defrosted or scanned and they can be brought back to "life" by the robots which will be in charge by
then. These Transhumanists will then continue their pontificating about the future and warn about
Global Warming. This is similar to the notion of humans bringing back Neanderthals and asking them
the "meaning of life".
Younger Transhumanists believe that they may well live to 1000 years of age if, of course, they can find
a way of avoiding their being made obsolete by robots.
donbot
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