a reply to:
lostgirl
Yes, all that biotechnological research Mr. Corbett is writing about is real, and if it is not, it is certainly in the wish-list of the superpsychotic
wannabe-masters-of-the-universe. But that does not mean that biotechnology is feasible, and in particular it doesn't mean it will possibly work. The
human brain is a delicate piece of technology. It was carefully crafted after millions of years of trial and error by no less than the real master of
the Universe: Nature. It contains deep within a mechanism of self-destruction, and it was designed with the sole idea of survival of the species, not
the survival of the individual.
Therefore, if I were a rich woman with a multi-trillion dollar fortune, aware of my own biological limitations, at a kissing distance from Death,
scared of dying, and someone offered me a way to transcend death by uploading my consciousness and my selfness, the first thing I would take care of
is getting rid of my brain and of my genome, because as I said, I would had learned that my not being immortal is already written in my genome.
However, lostgirl, in getting rid of your biological nature you are also getting rid of your selfness. There is no way you can escape that condition.
Selfishness can keep the individual alive for some time, but at the cost of sacrifying her own species. You'd be alone in your own universe, for eons.
Is it therefore worthwhile the sacrifice? Is the goal to be the only survivor in this Universe? Whom would you then exploit and abuse? Over whom would
you rule if there is nobody left except you? That would be the transhumanistic Universe: a dark, cold, empty Universe with just a sphere in it: you. I
will tell you what happens after that: it happens the horror of being alone, the unbearable terror of being the only one will make you shrink,
collapse... and explode with a big bang.
Yes, you guessed it: you have now died by creating an entire Universe. Again and again. There they are: your ocean of radiation, condensing into
matter, creating galaxies, planets... and life. See? There is no escape. Welcome to the machine.
Transhumanism is the wildest dream of the extremely rich few. A prerequisite for their plans to work is to debase an entire civilization. They do it
by creating deceiving demons, the sort of demon who dooms the truth stage by giving you a false beliefs, but disguises the evidence stage by making
the false belief seem true. Ufology and religions are good examples of how it works. The debasing demon is the sort of demon who dooms the basing
stage by forcing you to guess, but disguises the belief stage so that your belief seems properly based: that's how liberal democracy is debased. The
demon replaces humanity by transhumanity, making you believe your biology is a waste of time, an error, a cage that enslaves you. And it promises you
to overcome those limitations through technology (the very same technology that made of you a dehumanized slave). Will it work? No, it won't.
It won't work because transhumanists forgot that knowledge requires not just truth but also evidence, belief, and the proper connections between these
conditions, and they cannot offer neither truth, nor evidence because along the path they themselves have destroyed truth and belief. To be you
requires a lot of space and time, lostgirl, a lot of effort, a lot of love, a lot of "humanity", and the careful finetuning of millions of parameters.
It is not that humans are biological beings that will converge into a technological singularity. It is quite the reverse: you already were a
singularity, an artificial entity, the only intelligence in the Universe; and you decided to cease being the artificial superintelligence to become
biological. For good reasons.
See, the path to walk is the reverse one: from the artificial towards the biological. All advanced civilizations know that. That's why they come to
observe your miracle: survival of the species.