Problems
Solved
Plague
War
Unsolved
Human spiritual progress
Start. In-sync with animals and planets
Middle. In-sync with God
End. In-sync with ourselves (only)
A-Mortal
New bodys
Replacing "broken" organs
Different from immortal
Famine
Living forever
Human domination
of Earth
Reason for success
Contributing factors
Toolmaking
Intelligence
Cooperation
Ability to work in groups
Ability to build intersubjective systems #
Examples
USSR
With strangers
With family
We can transform intersubjective systems into objective systems
Imagination #
Other animals have only subjective and objective ways of thinking
Prepared to believe in them more
Prepared to give more for them
Not reasons for success
Consciousness
Mind vs Brain
More than just electrical pulses in the brain?
Hopes
Soul exists?
Just smarts
All shared with other animals
Banking
Storytelling #
Ability to organise #
Written word
What is written can become true
Religion
Humanism
New religion
Types
Liberalism
Socialist
Evolutionary
More important that fact
Common self of identity
Capitalism
The collective is the most important
Fascism
Some groups of humans are better than others
The individual is the most important
USSR
Central idea:
We give the universe meaning
Survive of the fittest
Has won out
Science vs Religion
Not that different
Science intersted in facts
Religion interested in feeling
Overtaken old religions
Based on science
Meets the needs of modern humans
Post-Humanism
Techno-Humanism
Upgrade the human mind
Data
New mental states
Mental states may currently be like electromagnetic spectrum support for humans
Already out dated? #
Future
Engineered Humans
Dumber
Easier to control
Less need for them to be cared for?
Humans lose military value
Smarter
Super humans
Based on Free Will
Does it exist?
Multiple inner voices
Narrating self vs Experiencing self
Algorithms
Intelligent but not conscience
Which one is "me"?
Idea that I have one "true" self
What is conscienceless?
Healthcare of the future will focus on making humans "better (smarter)"
Knows us better than we know ourselves
Still human?
New mental modes
Making choices for us
More focused on tasks
Humans lose economic value
"Attention focusing" helmets already exist #
Slaves to algorithms
Think "Altered carbon"
Are all actions pre-determined?
Just electro-chemical left overs?
Humans viewed as “biochemical subsystems” rather than "individuals"