Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
freem
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Openai/68212884-5940-8007-ae13-ab8952298d9e
(section)
Add languages
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Assistant: Transhumanism, as a worldview and movement, seeks the transformation of the human condition through advanced technologi… === Transhumanism, as a worldview and movement, seeks the transformation of the human condition through advanced technologies — including AI, genetic engineering, brain-computer interfaces, and cybernetic enhancement — with the aim of overcoming biological limitations, aging, and even death. This inquiry asks whether transhumanism is compatible with the foundational axiom of human reality and what impact it has from a spiritual perspective, across all converging domains of knowledge. ==== ### ==== * Transhumanism emphasizes technological salvation, often implicitly replacing God or transcendent purpose with human engineering. * In biblical theology, humanity is made in the image of God (imago Dei) — not a project to be replaced but redeemed and transformed spiritually, not mechanically. * Kabbalistic and Christian mysticism emphasize inner transformation, not artificial enhancement, as the path to divine likeness. 🧭 Conclusion: Philosophically and theologically, transhumanism departs from the foundational structure of traditional spiritual belief systems. ===== - Transhumanism views the body and mind as information systems — modular, upgradable, and replaceable. This is mechanistic. ===== * Spiritual traditions see the human as a holistic, ensouled system with moral and metaphysical purpose, irreducible to computation. 🧭 Conclusion: Transhumanism conflicts with systems views that include non-material dimensions such as soul or spirit. ===== - Transhumanism often assumes materialist reductionism: consciousness emerges from brain complexity and can be uploaded. ===== * But cross-cultural spiritual psychology (e.g., Vedanta, Christian mysticism, Sufism) maintains that consciousness transcends the material brain. 🧭 Conclusion: Transhumanist views on consciousness contradict most converged spiritual and psychological traditions. ===== - No traditional civilization or sacred text proposes salvation via technological augmentation. Transformation is always moral, spiritual, or ritual. ===== * Historical attempts to play God (e.g., Babel, eugenics) are portrayed as hubris and catastrophe. 🧭 Conclusion: Transhumanism breaks with the historical anthropology of meaning, humility, and divine order. ===== - Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism all affirm that ultimate human fulfillment is spiritual union, not technological enhancement. ===== * The eschatological hope (Messiah, resurrection, enlightenment, moksha) is not human-created but divinely initiated. 🧭 Conclusion: Transhumanism does not align with the metaphysical centrality found in global spiritual traditions. ==== ### ==== * It attempts to replace the soul with code, divine transcendence with digital transcendence, and moral sanctification with technological optimization. * It displaces God with Man, framing salvation as a self-directed engineering project, not a divine-human covenant. ==== | | | ==== | --- | --- | | | | | | | | | | | | | ===== : ===== Would you like a diagram comparing the spiritual anthropology of transhumanism vs. traditional religious models?
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to freem are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (see
Freem:Copyrights
for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource.
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)