The most radical aspect of transhumanism is the scenario that humans will be able to transport the content of their brains, their minds, to a non-biological entity and thereby achieve immortality. Kurzweil and other transhumanist visionaries imagine a "brain-porting scenario" that will involve "scanning a human brain capturing all of the salient details." This will entail reinstantiating the brain's state in a different - most likely much more powerful - computational substrate. According to [Raymond] Kurzweil this will be a feasible procedure and will happen mostly likely around the late 2030s. In this scenario "we will continue to have human bodies, but they will become morphable projections of our intelligence." Such "software-based humans," he predicts, "will be vastly extended beyond the severe limitations of humans as we know them today. They will live out on the Web, projecting bodies whenever they need or want them, including virtual bodies in diverse realms of virtual reality, holographically projected bodies, foglet-projected bodies, and physical bodies comprising nanobot swarms and other forms of nanotechnology." For Kurzweil this is a form of immortality, although he concedes that the data and information do not last forever; the longevity of information depends on its relevance, utility, and accessibility.
Mr. Spock in the Star Trek series was perhaps one of the original transhumanists and an excellent example of what happens when the famous Spock logic which symbolizes the rationality of Aquarius goes to an extreme. I watched only a portion of the video below, but I can tell it's going to be VERY interesting and something we'll be seeing a lot more of as we get closer to the Aquarian edge. Earlier this year, the head of the Independent Schools Council in Britain said that within 30 years children would be learning by downloading information directly into their head. An article I wrote back in February of 2007 makes the case for the Age of Aquarius transition around the year 2600. When you have a 2600 year cycle, the orb of influence is fairly large, perhaps 500 years or so. This earlier article closed with these comments which I'd like to repeat here:
In the best of all possible worlds, humans could evolve during this phase into enlightened beings, able to link the best of science with the best of spirit in a Utopian paradise of freedom and justice for everyone. Or will we face another future involving the worst of the Aquarian dynamic akin to a science fiction film: a fiercely rational and scientific future that requires perfection, using technology to create perfect humans through cloning and control of the masses via genetically manipulated food and computerized thought police? Like the Terminator and Matrix movies, will machines (technology) take over?
Watch the video and see what you think.
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Nothing here that wasn't already written in some 1950's Sci Fi novel. This video should be classed entertainment more than anything.
One benefit of the transhunmanist change-over would be the passive rejection of all phantoms, like religion, astrology, and the idea of the Age of Aquarius.
Transhumanism will work solely because we are made of bits of matter and the forces operating between them: we have _no_ inherent nature, but we can make of ourselves what we want (and is possible) by being clever enough. Any other way of looking at the universe, in particular the sort of Platonic idealism and magical thinking prevalent in the world, is a trap.
Conspiracy theory is actually realism just as the bible is so complex that it turns wise men backwards yet so simple that a child can understand.Free will means free thinking.Free will means questioning and coming up with the answers.All of you who claim to love freedom but freely submit your own mind is a bi-product of something more powerful than yourselves. But this is only because you allowed it to be so. A single majority mind is not free will.Educated dummies rule because they lack compassion.But transhumanism is not superior.Life will always find a way
I don't think that this transhumanist idea is going to be the majority. There is quite a bit of fallacy here. We may move further way from the Divine if we take this route. There is still the false belief that knowledge that is something outside of ourselves. That we are limited beings with no Divine Connection. We are beings of God with infinite consciousness! All that we need to know is inside of us! We can tap into infinite realms of understanding, consciousness and knowingness by recognizing our Divine perfection that already exists! The answer is not going to be new technology, it will be recognition of our own divine selves. Technology is only a metaphorical symbolism of what we already are. If only we be willing to deprogram ourselves of the twisted lies that humans have told themselves for ions, we can discover this Truth (Aquarius).
The beginning of the New Age will be over run by the New World Order (Illuminati, Zionist, Freemasons) & humanities lack of interest in preserving true freedom.
Our short comings in understanding the Illuminati plan or even believing it.
Will result in 1/3 of our total population being wiped out.
Then We will endure the NWO for a few years & revolution will break out.
Along with evolution of familiar sorts.
The NWO is trying to stop us from making this jump but they are to late.
To find out about activating your biology for the jump in evolution.
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Jahuti,
Rah
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