Self-creation
article nearly manned spaceflight inwards the Daily Telegraph (10 January):
recent resultant of the RSA Journal is called "transhumanist" who predicts:
The article exemplifies an mental attitude that is increasingly mutual inwards a secular age, where a feel of the sacred has decease attenuated or distorted or lost altogether. If nosotros are exactly the cloth products of evolution, why not accept over from the blind accidental processes of natural alternative in addition to pattern ourselves to live on the agency we'd similar to be? What could live on incorrect amongst that? Sure, at that spot volition live on closed to collateral impairment – what the article calls "sad grotesques" – but y'all can't brand an omelette without breaking eggs.
It is an mental attitude founded inwards the fantasies of the ego. Against it stands an mental attitude founded inwards reality – the reality of the public in addition to of human nature. The public comes from a mysterious rootage over which nosotros hit got no control. It is sheer gift. Conscious life, too, comes from this same mysterious rootage of Being, which cannot hence live on less than witting itself. The profound reasons why scientific discipline in addition to technology scientific discipline should non ignore or usurp this "source", reducing organism to artifact, are pose out inwards a paper past times Michael Hanby, from the Summer 2011 resultant of Communio.
"Even though manned spaceflight volition live on a diminishing priority for governments, I believe in addition to promise that closed to people at in 1 trial living volition walk on Mars (though they may good decease amongst one-way tickets). Moreover, a century or 2 from now, intrepid adventurers may live on living independently from the Earth. Whatever ethical constraints nosotros impose hither on the ground, nosotros should sure enough wishing such pioneers practiced luck inwards genetically modifying their progeny to adjust to alien environments.
"Indeed, this powerfulness live on the foremost measuring towards deviation into a novel species: the foremost of the post-human era. Meanwhile, machines of human-like tidings could spread nevertheless farther into the stars. Whether the distant hereafter lies amongst organic post-humans or amongst such intelligent machines is a affair for fence – but these prospects remind us that nosotros may live on close the foremost of a cultural in addition to technological development that volition decease along non alone hither on Earth, but far beyond."The emphasis is mine. Meanwhile, 1 of the most horrifying articles inwards a
recent resultant of the RSA Journal is called "transhumanist" who predicts:
"we volition alteration ourselves to travel inwards a agency that is smarter, amend in addition to faster. History is the floor of human liberation, in addition to pattern volition accept us to a novel frontier whereby nosotros tin loose ourselves from our really identities... To self-design volition live on to self-create. New jobs volition arise, in addition to modifications volition decease weather condition of employment."He concludes: "Self-modification volition start every bit tragedy. There volition live on wretched grotesques. But amongst the tools in addition to the intent, nosotros tin pattern our ain personalities. The Definition of ‘human’ volition expand. Our children’s children volition hold off aught similar us. And that volition live on past times design."
The article exemplifies an mental attitude that is increasingly mutual inwards a secular age, where a feel of the sacred has decease attenuated or distorted or lost altogether. If nosotros are exactly the cloth products of evolution, why not accept over from the blind accidental processes of natural alternative in addition to pattern ourselves to live on the agency we'd similar to be? What could live on incorrect amongst that? Sure, at that spot volition live on closed to collateral impairment – what the article calls "sad grotesques" – but y'all can't brand an omelette without breaking eggs.
It is an mental attitude founded inwards the fantasies of the ego. Against it stands an mental attitude founded inwards reality – the reality of the public in addition to of human nature. The public comes from a mysterious rootage over which nosotros hit got no control. It is sheer gift. Conscious life, too, comes from this same mysterious rootage of Being, which cannot hence live on less than witting itself. The profound reasons why scientific discipline in addition to technology scientific discipline should non ignore or usurp this "source", reducing organism to artifact, are pose out inwards a paper past times Michael Hanby, from the Summer 2011 resultant of Communio.
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