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> If that's not some sign of trying to outmake our own Maker, what is? I think most of transhumanist don't think there is a Maker. How could they take this vie
by emteycz 6y ago
> If that's not some sign of trying to outmake our own Maker, what is?
I think most of transhumanist don't think there is a Maker. How could they take this view? I myself am a godless person - religion wasn't even a topic during my childhood, in school, etc. I wouldn't even think about this without you telling me the idea.
- rglullis 6y agoI shouldn't have capitalized "maker" if that caused any confusion. I am not talking about any specific religion, but the metaphysical in general. The point is, no matter if you believe that life-as-we-know-it is a creation of God or a result of millions and millions of an ongoing evolutionary process; it seems to me that a transhumanist core belief goes beyond the idea of "wanting to live healthy long lives" and that they can take control over their own nature. It is this "wanting to take control over nature" that, put simply, reflects as an attempt to become a (lowercased) god. You don't need to think "I want to become God" to share that idea. A simple "I don't want to die" or "I want to enhance my intelectual capability beyond any natural limit" would be enough for me to claim the same thing as the author and I don't think it sensationalist in the slightest.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoI suppose that might be true. This reminds me of the Yudkowsky essay “An Alien God”: https://www.readthesequences.com/An-Alien-God https://www.readthesequences.com/An-Alien-God > If we ask who was more correct—the theologians who argued for a Creator-God, or the intellectually unfulfilled atheists who argued that mice spontaneously generated—then the theologians must be declared the victors: evolution is not God, but it is closer to God than it is to pure random entropy. … > Well, more power to us humans. I like having a Creator I can outwit.