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The pseudoscientific transhumanism movement which desires to transcend being human through technology and become posthuman in order achieve immortality has its roots in an atheistic/secular humanism worldview.[1] The atheist, evolutionist and eugenicist Julian Huxley coined the term transhumanism.[2]
Julian Huxley wrote:
| “ | The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself – not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way – but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.[3] | ” |
Ray Kurzweil: Uploading the human brain and achieving a technological singularity
An article entitled The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists describes the the atheist Ray Kurzweil thusly:
| “ | Ray Kurzweil sees technology as fulfilling all aspirations previously ascribed to religion, including immortality. He argues that computing machines will soon outstrip human cognitive capacities, at which point humanity will upload itself onto a new, indestructible digital medium (an atheist version/vision of “resurrection”).[4] | ” |
The article Top 10 atheist inconsistencies declares:
| “ | Some atheists like Ray Kurzweil advocate transhumanist doctrines that prophesy of a near future - in as few as 20 years, according to him - in which a singularity event will occur. With the singularity event, humans will be able to use science to achieve immortality. Kurzweil speaks of this singularity event with the same fervor in which the proverbial Southern Baptist minister raves about the Rapture. Fantasizing about post-singularity humanity, Kurzweil proclaims that, being able to live for eternity, we will eventually be able to know everything that can possibly be known.
But does he believe it's possible that there just might be another being in this vast universe who has achieved all knowledge before he has? No, that is ludicrous.[5] |
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See also
Notes
- ↑ A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
- ↑ A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
- ↑ A HISTORY OF TRANSHUMANIST THOUGHT, Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
- ↑ The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists
- ↑ [http://grayknight.hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Atheist-Inconsistencies Top 10 atheist inconsistencies