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MLA | Levin, Susan. "The irrationality of transhumanists." IAI News, 11 January 2021. /articles/the-irrationality-of-transhumanists-auid-1701 |
The unreasonable flaws in the movement’s big claims
Issue 94, 11th January 2021
Susan B. Levin
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Philosopher and author ofPosthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism
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The transhumanist movement has claimed rationality as its own, shutting down any questions about the benefits of extending lifespan or enhancing human’s rational capacity. But the movement itself is irrational: it is based on shaky scientific grounds, has no workable concept of post-humanity and conflates cognition and reason argues Susan Levin. Read 'The ethical transhumanist' here.
Bioenhancement is among the hottest topics in bioethics today. The most contentious area ofdebate here is advocacy of “radical” enhancement (aka transhumanism). Because transhumanistsurge us to categorically heighten select capacities, above all, rationality, it would be incorrect tosay that the possessors of these abilities were human beings: to signal, unmistakably, the transcendent status of these beings, transhumanists call them “posthuman,” “godlike,” and “divine.” For many, the idea of humanity’s technological self-transcendence has a strong initialappeal; that appeal, intensified by transhumanists’ relentless confidence that radical bioenhancement will occur if only we commit adequate resources to the endeavor, yields aviscerally potent combination. On this of all topics, however, we should not let ourselves be ruled by viscera.
Susan B. Levin
Issue 94, 11th January 2021
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The true irrationality of transhumanists is that they think their existence is so important that it warrants huge amounts of money and scientific research, and, most extremely, making it impossible for future generations to exist. Good to hear a scientific critique but the moral problems for transhumanism need to be made very clear. These people are not reasonable.
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These and all other arguments do not have a reasonable basis - the correct worldview.
The existing worldview (materialism), which civilization lives by, is the cause of chaos and obscurantism on the planet. The values of society are threatened by the unwise decisions of sciences, religions and governments around the world, they are organizing catastrophic events on Earth.
The unreasonableness of a person is the result of a wrong worldview.
Events are not a judgment, they are a consequence of the unreasonable thinking of the ruling elite.
Therefore, an ontology, first of all, must have a genuine knowledge of the foundations - an objective understanding of man and the world in which he lives. This is not currently the case.
Vyacheslav Dianov, author of the new "Harmonious worldview"