What is transhumanism? An evil movement driven by pride, fear, and megalomania to evolve what it fundamentally means to be human.
Satan yearns to be more powerful than God. What better move toward universal domination than to convince the pinnacle of God’s creation that they are not good enough in their natural God-given state? They must transform into different beings for their fulfillment and the collective survival of the planet.
It starts innocuously enough. Wearables to track your vital signs so that you can improve your health through diet, exercise, and improved sleep. Wonderful medical advancements helping the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the lame to walk, and the mute to communicate with thoughts transcribed to the screen.
These are technological wins and increases in human flourishing we can celebrate. But, transhumanists aren’t satisfied. It’s not enough.
What Motivates Transhumanist Elite?
The transhumanist elite PR teams want us to believe they just want what’s best for all of us. Some may be true believers with pure hearts. Hubris, desire for power, control, profits, and, ultimately, the fear of death and infinite oblivion drive the rest.
Futurist Max More, President Emeritus of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, defines transhumanism:
“A class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values.”
Transhumanists are not satisfied with man in his current state–limited life span, finite brain function, disease susceptibility, bodies that break down, and imperfect governance. They believe humans are on the cusp of breakthroughs enabling them to merge with machines and live forever under the reign of a perfect technological data god birthed from the seeds of artificial intelligence.
This becomes more acute for brilliant atheists who do not believe in an afterlife. They feel their contributions to humanity are so integral that they must find ways to prolong it. Forever if possible, even if that requires morphing into disembodied intelligences preserved in silicon. What’s the alternative? Pushing up daisies as their beautiful minds break down into worm food.
Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist said “Humanity is hurtling toward an inflection point where the converging fields of genomics, nanotech, and robotics will yield a material apocalypse. By 2045, give or take a year or two, humanity will hit the technological Singularity.”
The Singularity is the elegant merging of man with machine where we have access to all the information and data flows in the known universe, and bodies are indestructible. It’s a place where eugenicists customize kids with gene editing and splicing, while they breed out unfavorable traits and terminate those that exhibit them. Designer babies plugged into a digital matrix, fortified by bionic replacement parts, and monitored by nanoparticles patrolling their cells for anomalies.
Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, said “It would be a privilege to be the stepping stone to the next type of human … just like we followed Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal Man.”
We’re on the cusp of the next stage of man’s evolution and it’s human-driven. No need to wait for millenia on survival of the fittest and natural adaptations. Transhumanism is a quickening of evolution by our own hand. Yuval Noah Harari, the World Economic Forum’s in-house philosopher, calls it Human-directed evolution.
More radical transhumanism advocates believe the only reason humans exist is to birth the technology that will morph into a superintelligence (god) that rules the universe.
Elon Musk said: “It seemed to me some time ago that you could sort of think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.” From the other side of his mouth, Musk says he’s wary of the dangers of AI and accuses Larry Page of wanting to build a digital god.
Most of these tech bros dream of an artificial superintelligence that will become the god of the universe, dispassionately ruling over all beings with access to all information, the ability to sort through it instantaneously, and the “wisdom” to offer guidance, and drive civilization forward in its own image.
What are the chances of that?
Are any of these geniuses looking at probability? Do they not understand that access to all of the data and computing power to parse through it instantaneously does not equate to perfect, everloving sagacity and discernment? Some have raised concerns, but they march forward, believing the rewards outweigh the risks, and that an indomitable will trumps immovable obstacles every time. I mean look at how they’ve already transformed the world. Look at how much money they have!
Future Utopia With a Little Totalitarian Terror in the Meantime
Some transhumanists think we will have bionic bodies, and supercharged minds on Earth and in space. Many believe there will be a step beyond that, where you upload your consciousness to the cloud–a disembodied “pattern of matter and energy that persists over time” in silicon as Kruzweil says. Others, like Harari predict technology will obliterate the concept of humans as we merge with machines and slip into new worlds of cosmic data flows.
All of these scenarios sound horrific, anti-human, an affront to God’s creation, and ultimately a displacement of God with a man-made omniscient data processor. Transhumanists are responding to the ultimate lie just as Adam and Eve did. They want to become like gods, or even more audacious, create gods.
It is certainly an inversion and driven by demonic forces. The desire to live in a fallen state forever is folly. God, out of love, made man mortal after The Fall, so that they could return to a state of grace after death, rather than live in the godless realm of hell for eternity like condemned demons.
These masters of the universe (and our fate) pay lip service to the danger of these technologies but development is not slowing down. There’s a lot of money to make between now and the trans-utopic Singularity with AI-adjacent products and services that improve efficiency exponentially while reducing human labor costs. There’s power and full-spectrum control to seize for first movers in AI media mind control platforms, lab-grown foods, cutting-edge health treatments, and data-driven weapons systems.
Harari says the most impactful change triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic was the normalization of intervention under the skin (re: experimental gene therapy shots). He says once people accept this invasive method of “healthcare” there’s no limit to the power and control the ruling elite can have. Injected nanoparticles that capture biometric data offer the ultimate surveillance state from within. For the greater good of course.
Harari slips into doe-eyed rapture prattling on about evolutionary depopulation where most humans will be unnecessary in our brave new future.
This is the dark side … the near future of totalitarian control made possible by the technologies they say will save the planet and evolve humans to our ultimate destiny. They will read your thoughts and emotions. If you stray from the state-approved list of autonomic responses to oppression the state will correct you.
Even if that despotic, tyrannical dystopia doesn’t materialize, the digital revolution has already ravaged the souls of multitudes. Porn addiction. Dopamine addiction. Screen addiction. Aversion to actual human contact. Plummeting IQs. And real-world skills vanishing from the collective human experience as we hand them over to technological proxies. It’s going to get worse.
The Genesis of Transhumanism
According to this fantastic article by Meghan O’Gieblyn, the inception of the philosophy of transhumanism occurred in the church.
The word first appeared in print in Henry Francis Carey’s 1814 translation of Dante’s Paradiso. Dante writes about the resurrection when all of the dead will rise from their graves. Christians believe this will be a supernatural occurrence, but many have determined they can speed up this process with science and technology.
Alchemist Roger Bacon, considered to be the first western scientist, worked on an elixir of life, trying to imitate the resurrection as the Apostle Paul describes it. The Enlightenment and modern science brought with them more creative ways to expedite this glorious evolution of humanity.
A Russian Orthodox ascetic, Nikolai Fedorov, was reading Charles Darwin and determined that humans could direct their own evolution to trigger the resurrection. Technology harnessed to circumvent the slow, random process of natural selection.
French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, took it to the next level saying that evolution led to the Kingdom of God.
In 1949 Teilhard said that all machines would link in a global network. Human minds merged, consciousness unified, as humanity attains the Omega Point. He thought this incredible occurrence would allow humans to break through the constraints of time and space. A resurrection of sorts. Teilhard was incredibly ahead of his time with these concepts, yet he insisted it was Christ who was guiding humanity through evolution until finally merging with God for eternity.
This sounds like the religious-flavored rantings of Kurzweil, an atheist, and his concept of the Singularity. Kurzweil was part of a late-1980s movement in the San Francisco tech-industry scene, originally called Extropians where tech and transhumanist philosophy merged.
Despite the religious beginnings most modern-day transhumanists blame religion for holding the transhumanist project back:
“The greatest threat to humanity’s continuing evolution,” writes transhumanist Simon Young, “is theistic opposition to Superbiology in the name of a belief system based on blind faith in the absence of evidence.” [O’Gieblyn]
They mention Teilhard and Fedorov, but they credit Julian Huxley, known as Darwin’s bulldog, with coining the term transhumanism and bringing the concept to the fore. Huxley was a friend of Teilhard but was the first to decouple the philosophy from religion in a 1951 lecture.
“Such a broad philosophy,” he wrote, “might perhaps be called, not Humanism, because that has certain unsatisfactory connotations, but Transhumanism. It is the idea of humanity attempting to overcome its limitations and to arrive at fuller fruition.”
It never goes well when humans veer out of their lane. The Fall. Tower of Babel. Our transhumanist future?
Resources: What is Transhumanism?
- Book: Dark Aeon by Joe Allen
- Book: The Autism Epidemic Transhumanism’s Dirty Little Secret by Wayne McRoy
- Video: Is Transhumanism Based on THE Original Lie? (Counterflow – Buck Johnson and Joe Allen)
- Video: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity (Counterflow – Buck Johnson and Joe Allen)
- Video: Artificial Intelligence, Symbolism, Beauty and Truth (Counterflow – Buck Johnson and Jonathan Pageau)
- Video: Transhumanism and the Spirit of Our Age (Counterflow – Buck Johnson and Fr. Peter Heers)
- Article: God in the Machine: My Strange Journey Into Transhumanism
- Article: Are You Living in a computer Simulation
- Article: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Transhumanism and the Cult of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Matt Ehret. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a huge proponent of evolution and evolving Christianity from the inside. He also pushed eugenics and participated in two hoaxes trying to legitimize Darwin’s theory of evolution.
- Article: Barbara Marx Hubbard: Godmother of Transhumanism and Synthetic Spirituality – Barbara Marx Hubbard, inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, believed the Internet was a brand new planetary nervous system, key to an evolving consciousness.
- Kurzweil talks about his female alter ego, Ramona, who shows you can be anybody or anything you want in virtual reality. I’m not casting my lot with this guy when it comes to eternity.
- Nick Bostrom is a well-known Oxford philosopher and transhumanist. He cooked up a mathematical probability theory (Simulation Theory) that says it’s most likely we live in a simulation created by posthuman descendants. In other words, the Singularity has already happened and the people living in that eternal afterlife created this world.
- The Singularity Hub – the sanitized face of a terrifying march to cybernetic chimeras.
- The UK Ministry of Defense dropped an interesting document in May 2021 called Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm.
- In the 1960s people like Richard Brautigan thought the technological revolution would mean humans frolicking in the meadows among flowers, trees, deer (and awkwardly placed electronics) without a care in the world, while the computers do all the work and keep us safe. Read his naive, utopic vision in his terrible poem, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.
- The good old Rand Corporation weighs in on the Internet of Bodies (IoB).
- Whole-brain emulation so you can live forever in the cloud.